Re: [PATCH] lockfs patch for 2.6

[Kevin Corry <kevcorry@us.ibm.com>]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 2:35 pm, Chris Mason wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 05:25, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 10:23:31AM -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
> > > > P.S. this patch now kills 16 lines of kernel code summarized :)
> > >
> > > It looks good, I'll give it a try.
> >
> > ping?  I've seen you merged the old patch into the suse tree, and having
> > shipping distros with incompatible APIs doesn't sound exactly like a good
> > idea..
>
> Christoph's vfs patch looks good, I've stripped out the XFS bits (FS
> parts should probably be in different patches) and made one small
> change.  freeze/thaw now check to make sure bdev != NULL.
>
> On the device mapper side, I had to add a struct super_block pointer to
> the dm struct and changed it to pin the bdev struct during the freeze.
> Before, it could go away due to bdput, leading to deadlock when someone
> else got a bdev struct with bd_mount_sem held.
>
> New patches attached, along with an incremental to clearly show my
> changes to the dm patch.
>
> -chris

Thanks Chris! I'll test the new VFS-lock code in the morning.

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