On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:27:31 +0300, Dmitry Monakhov <dmonakhov@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Some times we call ->write_begin() with opened journal > but write_begin() may internally call ext4_should_retry_alloc() > in case of ENOSPC, which result in deadlock. > This patch introduce new AOP_FLAG which should be tested on retry > alloc path. > Can you explain this further. We do a journal_stop before ext4_should_retry_alloc. So not sure about the deadlock. -aneesh -- 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