Re: [patch 0/3] j_state_lock, j_list_lock, remove-bitlocks

Steven Rostedt
2005-03-17T09:59:54Z

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> [...] There's a couple of places that
> jbd_trylock_bh_state is used in checkpoint.c, but this is the one place
> that it definitely deadlocks the system. I believe that the
> code in checkpoint.c also has this problem.
>

I've examined the code in checkpoint.c, and I now believe that it doesn't
have this problem. When it fails a lock, it just falls out of the while
loops.

-- Steve