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DateThu, 17 Mar 2005 04:58:59 -0500 (EST)
FromSteven Rostedt <>
SubjectRe: [patch 0/3] j_state_lock, j_list_lock, remove-bitlocks

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
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