From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>,
dchinner@redhat.com, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/27] ext4: Convert to new freezing mechanism
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 23:13:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120611031340.GA29609@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1338589841-9568-18-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
On Sat, Jun 02, 2012 at 12:30:31AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> We remove most of frozen checks since upper layer takes care of blocking all
> writes. We have to handle protection in ext4_page_mkwrite() in a special way
> because we cannot use generic block_page_mkwrite(). Also we add a freeze
> protection to ext4_evict_inode() so that iput() of unlinked inode cannot modify
> a frozen filesystem (we cannot easily instrument ext4_journal_start() /
> ext4_journal_stop() with freeze protection because we are missing the
> superblock pointer in ext4_journal_stop() in nojournal mode).
>
> CC: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
> CC: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897421
> Tested-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
> Tested-by: Peter M. Petrakis <peter.petrakis@canonical.com>
> Tested-by: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
> Tested-by: Massimo Morana <massimo.morana@canonical.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-11 3:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-01 22:30 [PATCH 00/27 v6] Fix filesystem freezing deadlocks Jan Kara
2012-06-01 22:30 ` [PATCH 17/27] ext4: Convert to new freezing mechanism Jan Kara
2012-06-11 3:13 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
[not found] ` <1338589841-9568-1-git-send-email-jack-AlSwsSmVLrQ@public.gmane.org>
2012-06-09 6:29 ` [PATCH 00/27 v6] Fix filesystem freezing deadlocks Al Viro
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-12 14:20 [PATCH 00/27 v7] " Jan Kara
2012-06-12 14:20 ` [PATCH 17/27] ext4: Convert to new freezing mechanism Jan Kara
2012-04-16 16:13 [PATCH 00/19 v5] Fix filesystem freezing deadlocks Jan Kara
2012-04-16 16:13 ` [PATCH 17/27] ext4: Convert to new freezing mechanism Jan Kara
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