On Friday, March 16, 2001 12:32:56 AM -0500 Alexander Viro
<viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> 
>> > ObReiserfs_panic: what the hell is that ->s_lock bit about? panic()
>> > _never_ tries to do any block IO. It looks like a rudiment of something
>> > that hadn't been there for 5 years, if not longer. The same goes for
>> > ext2_panic() and ufs_panic(), BTW... I would suggest crapectomey here.
>> 
>> Ugh, that should have been dragged out and shot...patch will come in the
>> AM.
>> 
> Unfortunately it's nastier than I thought. panic() does sys_sync(). And
> IMO it really shouldn't. Notice that ->s_lock doesn't prevent
> ->write_inode() and friends from being called.
> 
> I suspect that the right fix is to drop the ->s_lock bogosity along with
> sys_sync() call in panic()...

Ok, I was more talking about the ugliness that is reiserfs_panic (how many
times do we need a commented out for(;;)?).  For panic() calling sys_sync,
I think there non-filesystem related panics where we do want to sync.

-chris

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