On Tue, 1 Oct 2019, Nikos Tsironis wrote: > Hello, > > This patch fixes the deadlock issue reported in this thread: > https://www.redhat.com/archives/dm-devel/2019-September/msg00168.html. > > Although I have been really careful preparing this patch, in order to > avoid any further issues, any extra review would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Nikos > > Nikos Tsironis (1): > dm snapshot: Fix bug in COW throttling mechanism causing deadlocks > > drivers/md/dm-snap.c | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- > 1 file changed, 90 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) Hi I think a better solution would be to drop all locks while waiting for some kcopyd job. I'll send patches for that. Mikulas -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
