From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:21:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:21:29 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:44300 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 20:21:15 -0500 Message-ID: <3C856EA1.A88F9EA4@zip.com.au> Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:19:29 -0800 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.19-pre2 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Hansen CC: Alexander Viro , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove BKL from ext2_get_block() version 2 In-Reply-To: <3C856818.4050005@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. -