From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kara Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3 RESEND] Fix hang of BSD accounting on frozen filesystem Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 16:43:06 +0100 Message-ID: <20130207154306.GB25392@quack.suse.cz> References: <1360248739-24836-1-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Jan Kara , Al Viro , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Marco Stornelli Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:36151 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755653Ab3BGPnR (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2013 10:43:17 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, On Thu 07-02-13 16:32:22, Marco Stornelli wrote: > 2013/2/7 Jan Kara : > > I'm trying to push this series to you for several months already but I > > didn't get a word from you... This is a third resend or so. Can you > > please share your opinion or merge it? Thanks! There is actually a user > > who hit the deadlock... > > it's actually out of scope about this patch series, but what do you > think about to change the freeze wait queue from uninterruptible to > killable? I think it should be worth but I don't know if it can break > user-space apps. I wasn't considering it but it should be doable with a relatively low effort (most callers use mnt_want_write() anyway and that has to already deal with failure). I'm not sure when I get to it though. Honza -- Jan Kara SUSE Labs, CR