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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Cc: "Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
	"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] remove the BKL: remove "BKL auto-drop" assumption from ext3_remount()
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:39:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090426163924.GD6236@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1240492586-6654-1-git-send-email-abogani@texware.it>


* Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it> wrote:

> Fix ext3_remount()'s "schedule() drops the BKL automatically" assumption,
> when ext3_mark_recovery_complete(), which can sleep, does not do that it can
> lock up.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
> ---
>  fs/ext3/super.c |    2 ++
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/ext3/super.c b/fs/ext3/super.c
> index dc905f9..3fa457a 100644
> --- a/fs/ext3/super.c
> +++ b/fs/ext3/super.c
> @@ -2561,9 +2561,11 @@ static int ext3_remount (struct super_block * sb, int * flags, char * data)
>  			 * We have to unlock super so that we can wait for
>  			 * transactions.
>  			 */
> +			unlock_kernel();
>  			unlock_super(sb);
>  			ext3_mark_recovery_complete(sb, es);
>  			lock_super(sb);
> +			lock_kernel();

Shouldnt this be a conditional-unlock, so that if the remount moves 
away from under the BKL we dont break in this place?

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-26 16:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-23 13:16 [PATCH -tip] remove the BKL: remove "BKL auto-drop" assumption from ext3_remount() Alessio Igor Bogani
2009-04-26 16:39 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-04-27 20:21   ` Alessio Igor Bogani
2009-04-27 20:22   ` [PATCH -tip:kill-the-BKL] " Alessio Igor Bogani

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