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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	dm-devel@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] deadlock with suspend and quotas
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 03:30:05 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120103033005.GZ23916@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1111251522230.4118@hs20-bc2-1.build.redhat.com>

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 03:25:16PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote:

> The following patch fixes the deadlock. When the quota subsystem takes s_umount,
> it checks if the filesystem is frozen. If it is, we drop s_umount, wait for
> the filesystem to resume and retry.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
> CC: stable@kernel.org

So basically you want a variant of get_super() that would get you a
superblock for this bdev, locked and unfrozen?  Fair enough, but
	* that should be a proper helper in super.c, rather than
open-coded in fs/quota/quota.c, of all places
	* what about other existing callers get_super() and its friends?

and while we are at it, why in damnation name is it exported?  The only
caller outside of core VFS is under #if 0...

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-01-03  3:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-25 20:25 [PATCH] deadlock with suspend and quotas Mikulas Patocka
2011-11-28 15:04 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-28 21:00   ` Valerie Aurora
2011-11-28 21:14     ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-11-28 23:32       ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-11-29 10:19         ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 10:21           ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 11:06             ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-11-29 11:11               ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 12:54                 ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-11-29 13:09                   ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 13:18                     ` [dm-devel] " Alasdair G Kergon
2011-11-29 13:32                       ` Jan Kara
2011-11-29 16:33                         ` Eric Sandeen
2011-11-30  6:52                         ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-11-30 11:16                           ` Jan Kara
2011-11-30 12:14                             ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-11-30 13:05                               ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-11-30 16:53                                 ` Jan Kara
2011-11-30 17:09                                   ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-11-30 13:33           ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-11-30 13:48             ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-11-30 16:36               ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-11-30 16:34             ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-12-01  0:34               ` Jan Kara
2011-11-30 14:09           ` Alasdair G Kergon
2011-11-30 16:53             ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-12-01  0:03               ` Jan Kara
2011-11-30 17:03             ` Mikulas Patocka
2011-11-29 20:00     ` Kamal Mostafa
2012-01-03  3:30 ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-01-03 18:22   ` Mikulas Patocka
2012-01-03 18:35     ` Mikulas Patocka

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