From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gmail.com>
To: giulio fedel <giulio.fedel@andorsystems.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: jffs2 kernel dump with 2.6.22-rc7
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 14:08:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C75FD4.90801@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46C5D764.5000303@andorsystems.com>
giulio fedel wrote:
> In jffs2_do_unlink() in fs/jffs2/write.c
> the jffs2_complete_reservation(c) is called even if
> jffs2_reserve_space() is not called. This cause an unmatched
> up(&c->alloc_sem) so the locking mechanism does not work.
> People using MTD_CAP_NORFLASH flash _and_ CONFIG_JFFS2_SUMMARY do not
> see the problem (see os-linux.h for the definition of
> jffs2_can_mark_obsolete(c)).
>
> I think this is your problem (it was the mine).
I can confirm that your patch solves the problem for me. I've been
unable to use jffs2 since 2.6.22 because of this problem. Thanks for
the fix!
Zac
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-18 21:08 UTC|newest]
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2007-08-01 18:41 ` jffs2 kernel dump with 2.6.22-rc7 shanevolpe
2007-08-17 17:14 ` giulio fedel
2007-08-18 21:08 ` Zac Medico [this message]
2007-08-18 21:42 ` Josh Boyer
2007-08-19 0:59 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2007-08-19 8:56 ` David Woodhouse
2007-08-20 3:33 ` Zac Medico
2007-08-20 9:08 ` giulio fedel
2007-07-10 11:09 shanevolpe
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