From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>,
sct@redhat.com, adilger@clusterfs.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
riel@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.21-pre2 stalls out when running unixbench
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 08:10:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030111081025.A19877@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E16C171.BFEA45AE@digeo.com>; from akpm@digeo.com on Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 03:11:45AM -0800
On Sat, Jan 04, 2003 at 03:11:45AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Sure, we don't need atomic semantics for the BH_Attached bit because
> it is always read and modified under a global spinlock. But *other*
> users of buffer_head.b_state do not run under that lock so the nonatomic
> RMW will stomp on their changes. 2.4.20 does not have this bug.
Thanks, I still had to learn something about *_bit() semantics.
And sorry for introducing that bug..
prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-11 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-03 16:56 2.4.21-pre2 stalls out when running unixbench Joe Korty
2003-01-03 20:07 ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-03 20:30 ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-04 1:11 ` Joe Korty
2003-01-04 11:11 ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-05 2:58 ` Joe Korty
2003-01-06 12:10 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2003-01-06 12:15 ` John Bradford
2003-01-06 13:20 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2003-01-06 12:16 ` Andrew Morton
2003-01-06 13:23 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2003-01-11 8:10 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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