Re: [ANNOUNCE] new new aops patchset

[Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 01:18:13PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 14:09 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Updated aops patchset against 2.6.21-rc5.
> > 
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/npiggin/patches/new-aops/
> > 
> > Files/dirs are 2.6.21-rc5-new-aops*
> > 
> > Contains numerous fixes from Mark and myself -- I'd say the core code is
> > getting reasonably stable at this point.
> > 
> > New stuff: patches from Mark and Steve for the cluster filesystems.
> > 
> > (compile only) patches for NFS, XFS, FUSE, eCryptfs. OK, they're untested,
> > but I have tried to put some effort in, so if maintainers would kindly
> > take a look... ext3 still needs review and porting to ext4, which I hope
> > someone will do eventually (I presume ext3 is still maintained)... does NFS
> > have a lock_page vs lock_kernel deadlock in its commit_write? (if yes, this
> > is fixable with the new write aops).
> 
> In case of error, write_begin() is *supposed* to unlock and release the
> page it locked. Right ?

Thanks.

BTW. I also had another instance of that problem in the NFS conversion.