From: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>,
cmm@us.ibm.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -V2 3/5] ext4: Fix the race between read_block_bitmap and mark_diskspace_used
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:02:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081123190224.GE26473@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081121173135.GF11212@skywalker>
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:01:35PM +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> Same is true with inode bitmap also.
>
I don't see how this patch could affect any races with the inode
bitmaps; the patch only affects mballoc.c, and only changes the
locking around bitmaps.
This is one that I think we may want to send to Linus soon as a 2.6.28
bugfix.
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-23 19:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-21 16:44 [PATCH -V2 1/5] ext4: Remove unneeded code Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-21 16:44 ` [PATCH -V2 2/5] ext4: unlock group before ext4_error Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-21 16:44 ` [PATCH -V2 3/5] ext4: Fix the race between read_block_bitmap and mark_diskspace_used Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-21 16:44 ` [PATCH -V2 4/5] ext4: Use both hi and lo bits of the group desc values Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-21 16:44 ` [PATCH -V2 5/5] ext4: Fix the race between read_inode_bitmap and ext4_new_inode Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-21 17:30 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-11-23 19:26 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-24 4:05 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-24 11:15 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-21 17:29 ` [PATCH -V2 4/5] ext4: Use both hi and lo bits of the group desc values Eric Sandeen
2008-11-21 17:41 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-21 17:53 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-11-23 4:09 ` Andreas Dilger
2008-11-24 1:21 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-24 2:13 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-24 10:38 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-21 17:22 ` [PATCH -V2 3/5] ext4: Fix the race between read_block_bitmap and mark_diskspace_used Eric Sandeen
2008-11-21 17:31 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-21 17:39 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-21 17:40 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-11-21 17:39 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-11-23 19:02 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2008-11-24 6:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-23 14:00 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-24 7:14 ` Alex Zhuravlev
2008-11-24 11:33 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-24 16:36 ` Alex Zhuravlev
2008-11-24 16:43 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-24 18:03 ` Alex Zhuravlev
2008-11-24 18:12 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-24 18:17 ` Alex Zhuravlev
2008-11-24 18:21 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-24 18:28 ` Alex Zhuravlev
2008-11-24 18:41 ` Alex Zhuravlev
2008-11-25 14:29 ` Frédéric Bohé
2008-11-25 16:38 ` Alex Zhuravlev
2008-11-23 13:37 ` [PATCH -V2 2/5] ext4: unlock group before ext4_error Theodore Tso
2008-11-23 13:43 ` Theodore Tso
2008-11-23 13:59 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2008-11-21 17:20 ` [PATCH -V2 1/5] ext4: Remove unneeded code Eric Sandeen
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