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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
To: joakim.tjernlund@transmode.se
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
	Adrian Hunter <ext-adrian.hunter@nokia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [JFFS2] Prevent list corruption when handling write errors
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:59:42 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1175162382.19966.11.camel@sauron> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1175161973.2135.1.camel@gentoo-jocke.transmode.se>

On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 11:52 +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 11:00 +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> > If a write error occurs, the affected block is placed on the
> > bad_used_list.  In the case that the write error occured
> > when writing summary data the block was also being placed on
> > the dirty_list, which caused list corruption and ultimately
> > a soft lockup in jffs2_mark_node_obsolete. This fixes that.
> 
> I thougth that node obsoleting was disabled when summary is active?

Of course not. On-flash obsoleting is disabled, but not in-RAM.

-- 
Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)

      reply	other threads:[~2007-03-29 10:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-29  8:00 [PATCH] [JFFS2] Prevent list corruption when handling write errors Adrian Hunter
2007-03-29  9:52 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-03-29  9:59   ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]

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