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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Bhagi rathi <jahnu77@gmail.com>
Cc: "donaldd@sgi.com" <donaldd@sgi.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com, sgi.bugs.xfs@engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: TAKE 970240 - kill BMAPI_DEVICE
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:30:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070913203055.GA14895@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc7060690709131223o7bb4f75sd6a42e30a6a078c3@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 12:53:20AM +0530, Bhagi rathi wrote:
> Can one of you let me know the process of submitting changes?

Just send a unified diff (using diff -u) to the list.

> 
> Problem: Real time flag set on a regular file can race with directio which
> can lead to
>               incorrect real time device for iomap in xfs_vm_direct_IO. This
> can happen
>               only on the first I/O to the file as we don't set real time
> flag if any of
>               the extents or delayed blocks present.
> 
> Fix:
> 
>   xfs_setattr() {
>           ...
>           if (!(mask & XFS_AT_SIZE)) {
>                  if (need_io_lock && vap->va_xflags & XFS_XFLAG_REALTIME)
>                         lock_flags |= XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL;
>                  .....
>           }

I have a patch queued up aswell, although it's after a reorganization of
the code to not clutter xfs_setattr even more.  If you want to send out
the fix now please go ahead.

      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-13 20:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-13  4:34 TAKE 970240 - kill BMAPI_DEVICE donaldd
2007-09-13 19:23 ` Bhagi rathi
2007-09-13 20:30   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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