From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Roberts Nathan-mcg31137 <Nathan.Roberts@motorola.com>,
linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, ye janboe <janboe.ye@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: JFFS2 deadlock with alloc_sem
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:23:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1185895406.3083.117.camel@pmac.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185888229.14534.13.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 08:23 -0500, Dave Kleikamp wrote:
> We had tried a similar patch, attached here, but it caused problems.
> Maybe our patch is missing something.
>
> >From the bug report:
> -----------------------------
> Built and ran the 2nd patch (attachment 28493 [edit]). Results are similar
> as before, jffs2 runs for a little while, but soon complains there's
> already data at the point where it intends to write.
>
> ARGH. About to write node to 0x00140010 on flash, but there's data already
> there:
> 0x00140010: 19 85 e0 02 00 00 00 ac 0a 3e 48 74 00 00 00 74
Hm, I think that's probably a _separate_ problem, which you happened to
exacerbate. I don't see how it's related to f->sem locking.
--
dwmw2
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <af3ea28a0707262032h7ee22775t6ef54e364a9cd704@mail.gmail.com>
2007-07-27 3:38 ` JFFS2 deadlock with alloc_sem 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 [this message]
2007-07-31 15:36 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-07-31 16:23 ` David Woodhouse
2007-08-02 4:11 ` ye janboe
2007-06-08 19:26 Dave Kleikamp
2007-06-11 12:14 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-12 1:45 ` Roberts Nathan-mcg31137
2007-06-19 16:11 ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-06-19 19:42 ` Dave Kleikamp
-- 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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