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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@redhat.com>,
	Sage Weil <sage@newdream.net>
Subject: Re: processes hung after sys_renameat, and 'missing' processes
Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2012 17:42:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFwvtdJsFEit4N3OVKZH2jpvxnB9843nhQeqGu99aUOQpw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120608003604.GK30000@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Frankly, I would very much prefer to have the same locking rules wherever
> possible.  The locking system is already overcomplicated and making its
> analysis fs-dependent as well... <shudder>

I do agree that it would be better if we avoid it. I was just trying
to explain that the dentry locking is *not* enough, for the simple
reason that it relies on upper-level non-dentry locking just to work.

Your patch looks good, but whether it works I have no idea ;)

               Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2012-06-08  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]             ` <CA+55aFyp2GUbc218eb5BDyAqz+cOPTJMVcb4ptk+f1_RBB+-mg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]               ` <20120607011915.GA17566@redhat.com>
     [not found]                 ` <20120607012900.GE30000@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
2012-06-07 19:36                   ` processes hung after sys_renameat, and 'missing' processes Al Viro
2012-06-07 20:43                     ` Sage Weil
2012-06-07 23:12                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-06-07 23:39                       ` Al Viro
2012-06-07 23:57                       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-08  0:36                         ` Al Viro
2012-06-08  0:42                           ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2012-06-08  0:59                           ` Al Viro
2012-06-08  5:25                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-06-08  5:48                               ` Al Viro
2012-06-08  7:54                                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-06-08 20:20                                   ` Al Viro
2012-06-08  2:08                           ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-06-08  2:37                             ` Al Viro
2012-06-08  2:18                     ` Al Viro
2012-06-08 16:22                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-06-08 17:44                       ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-11 12:17                         ` J. Bruce Fields

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