Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 21 May 2003 09:38:48 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [Ext2-devel] [RFC] probably bug in current ext3/jbd |
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Alex Tomas <bzzz@tmi.comex.ru> wrote: > > looks Andrew Morton should return BKL in ext3_get_block_handle() in -mm tree? > this BKL protects ext3_alloc_branch() -> ext3_alloc_block() -> ext3_new_block() > call chain. or we may implement new protection schema where each jh has some > reference alike 'used by transaction N'
Can this be solved by spinlocking the relevant buffer_head, in a similar way to your recent changes to journal_add_journal_head()? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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