From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: fix __ocfs2_cluster_lock() dead lock
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:05:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100110100546.GB21032@mail.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E61B62B5-C721-4391-8F33-4E8F3098A6BB@oracle.com>
On Sat, Jan 09, 2010 at 10:24:10AM -0800, Sunil Mushran wrote:
> This needs testing. Joel has forwarded it to Fabbione who has a
> testcase that we believe triggers this issue. If that works, I'll
> push this in the 1.6 testing tree. That way we'll know (a) the patch
> fixes the problem, and (b) does not break other things. This is a
> tricky function. We are just being careful.
Wengang,
Like Sunil said, this is a very critical part of the code. Our
locking code is the biggest place for lockups and corruptions to happen.
We always take the safe route here. We're working to test both of your
patches.
Joel
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Joel Becker
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-10 10:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-06 8:34 [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: fix __ocfs2_cluster_lock() dead lock Wengang Wang
2010-01-07 2:00 ` Joel Becker
2010-01-07 5:22 ` Wengang Wang
2010-01-09 18:05 ` Wengang Wang
2010-01-09 18:24 ` Sunil Mushran
2010-01-10 10:05 ` Joel Becker [this message]
2010-01-11 1:55 ` Wengang Wang
2010-01-12 1:59 ` Joel Becker
2010-01-12 3:58 ` Wengang Wang
2010-01-12 11:18 ` Joel Becker
2010-01-12 12:04 ` Wengang Wang
2010-01-12 13:01 ` Joel Becker
2010-01-12 14:30 ` Wengang Wang
2010-01-12 19:14 ` Sunil Mushran
2010-01-13 6:15 ` Wengang Wang
2010-01-12 19:47 ` David Teigland
2010-01-13 3:20 ` Wengang Wang
2010-01-13 7:08 ` Wengang Wang
2010-01-13 7:57 ` Joel Becker
2010-01-13 9:23 ` Wengang Wang
2010-01-13 9:31 ` Joel Becker
2010-01-13 9:36 ` Wengang Wang
2010-01-13 19:14 ` Sunil Mushran
2010-01-14 1:01 ` Joel Becker
2010-01-14 4:12 ` Wengang Wang
2010-01-21 15:30 ` David Teigland
2010-01-21 15:41 ` Sunil Mushran
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