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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/6] fix i_mutex locking in splice to file
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:29:54 +0200
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On Tue, Apr 14 2009, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Jens, Mark,
> 
> This series deals with the problem of generic_file_splice_write() and
> ocfs2_file_splice_write() holding i_mutex (and ocfs2 lock) on
> destination inode across pipe_wait(), which waits for a user
> controlled event.
> 
> Lightly tested on ext3.  The OCFS2 changes have only been compile
> tested.
> 
> Please review/test.

Thanks Miklos, I've integrated it for testing. Looks good!

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Jens Axboe