Re: Linux 2.4.9-ac11

Trond Myklebust
2001-09-17T07:47:48Z

>>>>> " " == Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

> Horst von Brand <vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> writes:
>> Boots and panics immediately "trying to kill init"

> Backout the changes to fs/locks.c or the patch of Trond :

> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=100019824200351&w=2

Huh? WTF does a patch to the locking code have to do with init?

That particular code is only called if something closes a file on
which POSIX locks are applied. Init doesn't use locking.
The patch *is* required in Alan's tree. Without it, 2 processes that
lock the same file can race and corrupt the i_flock list.

Cheers,
Trond