One think that sprung to mind,.. IFF we're going to implement percpu_counter with local_t and make local_t this funny tri-counter thing which has its own error, you need to fix up bdi_stat_error() - it expects to be an upper bound for the counter error, getting that wrong _will_ cause deadlocks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html