From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove BKL from ext2_get_block() version 2
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:19:29 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C856EA1.A88F9EA4@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0203051935160.18755-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> <3C856818.4050005@us.ibm.com>
Dave Hansen wrote:
>
> Alexander Viro wrote:
> > Denied. You can trivially do that in ext2_read_inode() and ext2_new_inode().
> Good point. That makes it much easier.
>
> > ext2 patches _MUST_ get testing in 2.5 before they can go into 2.4. At
> > the very least a month, preferably - two. Until then consider them vetoed
> > for 2.4, no matter how BKL brigade feels about their crusade.
> ChangeSet@1.290 2002-02-11 21:26:50-08:00 viro@psu.edu
>
> So, it has been almost a month. Do you plan to port these changes back
> to 2.4 yourself?
>
2.5.5's ext2 has an SMP race, probably in get_block, which results in
the freeing of already-free buffers. That has not yet been found and
fixed.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-06 1:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-06 0:23 [PATCH] remove BKL from ext2_get_block() version 2 Dave Hansen
2002-03-06 0:40 ` Alexander Viro
2002-03-06 0:51 ` Dave Hansen
2002-03-06 1:19 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-03-06 6:57 ` Dave Hansen
2002-03-06 0:50 ` Alan Cox
2002-03-06 1:17 ` Dave Hansen
[not found] ` <20020306004432.GC5538@matchmail.com>
2002-03-06 1:20 ` Dave Hansen
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