Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 2010 22:59:11 +0800 | From | Américo Wang <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] fs: run emergency remount on dedicated workqueue |
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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:57:23AM +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: >Commit fa4b9074cd8428958c2adf9dc0c831f46e27c193 made s_umount depend >on keventd; however, emergency remount schedules works to keventd >which grabs s_umount creating a circular dependency. Run emergency >remount on a separate workqueue to break it. >
I have a stupid question, why using workqueue instead of calling do_remount_sb() directly in emergency_remount()? Avoid blocking emergency_remount()?
Thanks.
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