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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Thomas Neumann <tneumann@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: deadlocks with fallocate
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:13:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091015121345.GA18234@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200910150758.06003.tneumann@users.sourceforge.net>

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 07:58:05AM +0200, Thomas Neumann wrote:
> I did some more tests, and indeed the patch makes the deadlock go away. Your 
> description of it as a hack makes me somewhat concerned about using it 
> permanently, but hopefully you will find a proper solution ;)

It's basically a flag to say all allocations from this thread should
not recurse back into filesystem code.  I'll either need to change
the allocations manually or keep this flag and write a comment
documenting why.  I'll decide what to on my long airplane ride tomorrow
and will make sure it goes off to Linus' tree ASAP after that.

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      reply	other threads:[~2009-10-15 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-08  6:59 deadlocks with fallocate Thomas Neumann
2009-10-14 15:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-14 23:16   ` Thomas Neumann
2009-10-15  5:58   ` Thomas Neumann
2009-10-15 12:13     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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