From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] Possible lock inversion in directory locking
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:38:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090212003819.GA1706@mail.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090211235237.GE17410@wotan.suse.de>
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:52:37PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> It's not intentional, no. In fact, we didn't really use ip_alloc_sem for
> directories much until recently when Joel standardized it. As far as fixing
> this, I'd say it's best to re-order the locks properly.
Agreed.
Joel
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-11 17:58 [Ocfs2-devel] Possible lock inversion in directory locking Jan Kara
2009-02-11 23:52 ` Mark Fasheh
2009-02-12 0:38 ` Joel Becker [this message]
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