From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"reiserfs-dev@namesys.com" <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: [reiserfs-dev] [patch 5/15] reiserfs locking fix
Date: 21 May 2002 08:29:05 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1021984145.22608.173.camel@tiny> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CE7FF5A.FEDD69CB@zip.com.au>
On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 15:39, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
>
> reiserfs is using b_inode_buffers and fsync_buffers_list() for
> attaching dependent buffers to its journal. For writeout prior to
> commit.
>
> This worked OK when a global lock was used everywhere, but the locking
> is currently incorrect - try_to_free_buffers() is taking a different
> lock when detaching buffers from their "foreign" inode. So list_head
> corruption could occur on SMP.
Thanks Andrew, this is working for me here.
-chris
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2002-05-19 19:39 [patch 5/15] reiserfs locking fix Andrew Morton
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