From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Artem B. Bityuckiy" <dedekind@infradead.org>
Cc: dwmw2@lists.infradead.org, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATC] small VFS change for JFFS2
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 09:51:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050418085121.GA19091@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1113814031.31595.3.camel@sauron.oktetlabs.ru>
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 12:47:11PM +0400, Artem B. Bityuckiy wrote:
> JFFS2 assumes that the above mentioned 'state' field is always coherent
> with the real state of the inode. The state is changed on read_inode()
> and clear_inode() inode operation calls.
> One obvious thing to fix this JFFS2 problem is to acquire the iprune_sem
> semaphore in JFFS2 GC, but for this we need to export it. So, please,
> consider the following VFS patch (against Linux 2.6.11.5):
No, exporting locks is a really bad idea. Please try to find a better
method to fix your problem that doesn't export random kernel symbols.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-18 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-18 8:47 [PATC] small VFS change for JFFS2 Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-18 8:51 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-04-18 8:58 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-18 10:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-18 11:46 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-18 11:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-18 12:31 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-18 12:46 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-18 12:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-04-18 12:56 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-04-18 13:08 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-18 13:38 ` ntfs ->iput use - was: " Anton Altaparmakov
2005-04-18 13:16 ` David Woodhouse
2005-04-18 14:07 ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
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