From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nathan.Roberts@motorola.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: JFFS2 deadlock with alloc_sem
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:14:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1181564059.2801.93.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1181330764.10571.34.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com>
On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 14:26 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> Forgive me for not following up properly, but I'm not on the mailing
> list, and I'm following up from the archives.
Hm, sorry about that. The archives should be fixed (again) now -- if you
use the mailto: link at the top of an archived mail such as the one at
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2007-June/018477.html
your response should have a correct In-Reply-To: header and be part of
the thread.
> What do you think of this patch, and does it have any affect on
> Nathan's deadlock?
It looks sensible. Nathan?
> Note: If this works out, jffs2_readpage and jffs2_do_readpage_unlock
> can probably be collapsed into one function.
Yeah. And the ordering of f->sem vs. page locking should be documented
in README.Locking, now that we actually have rules for it :)
--
dwmw2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-11 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-08 19:26 JFFS2 deadlock with alloc_sem Dave Kleikamp
2007-06-11 12:14 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2007-06-12 1:45 ` Roberts Nathan-mcg31137
2007-06-19 16:11 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-06-19 19:42 ` Dave Kleikamp
[not found] <af3ea28a0707262032h7ee22775t6ef54e364a9cd704@mail.gmail.com>
2007-07-27 3:38 ` ye janboe
2007-07-27 13:42 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-07-27 16:35 ` ye janboe
2007-07-27 17:38 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-07-30 12:45 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-30 16:45 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-07-31 12:10 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-31 12:40 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-31 13:23 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-07-31 15:23 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-31 15:36 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-07-31 16:23 ` David Woodhouse
2007-08-02 4:11 ` ye janboe
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-04-30 19:41 Roberts Nathan-mcg31137
2007-05-05 8:23 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-02 17:42 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-05 14:21 ` Roberts Nathan-mcg31137
2007-06-07 14:29 ` Josh Boyer
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