From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:25:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:25:04 -0400 Received: from penguin.e-mind.com ([195.223.140.120]:51461 "EHLO penguin.e-mind.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:24:59 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:24:33 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Chris Mason Cc: Stefan.Bader@de.ibm.com, torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Alexander Viro , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages Message-ID: <20010621172433.J29084@athlon.random> In-Reply-To: <20010621170813.F29084@athlon.random> <470160000.993136602@tiny> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <470160000.993136602@tiny>; from mason@suse.com on Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:16:42AM -0400 X-GnuPG-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.gnupg.asc X-PGP-Key-URL: http://e-mind.com/~andrea/aa.asc Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:16:42AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote: > Think of a mixture of fsync_inode_buffers and async i/o on page. Since > fsync_inode_buffers uses ll_rw_block, if that end_io handler is the last to > run the page never gets unlocked. correct Andrea