Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:49:20 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds |
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:48:09 -0800 Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 12:37:17 +0300 > Alex Tomas <alex@clusterfs.com> wrote: > > > >>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes: > > > > AM> What lock protects the fields in struct ext[234]_reserve_window from being > > AM> concurrently modified by two CPUs? None, it seems. Ditto > > AM> ext[234]_reserve_window_node. i_mutex will cover it for write(), but not > > AM> for pageout over a file hole. If we end up with a zero- or negative-sized > > AM> window then odd things might happen. > > > > truncate_mutex? > > > > yes. hmm.
by which I mean "ext2 doesn't have a truncate_mutex". - 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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