On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:21:43PM +1000, Grant Coady wrote: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 15:28:00 -0700, you wrote: > > >2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > > >------------------ > > > > > >From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > >commit a30d542a0035b886ffaafd0057ced0a2b28c3a4f upstream. > > > >With delayed allocation we need to make sure block are reserved before > >we attempt to allocate them. Otherwise we get block allocation failure > >(ENOSPC) during writepages which cannot be handled. This would mean > >silent data loss (We do a printk stating data will be lost). This patch > >updates the DIO and fallocate code path to do block reservation before > >block allocation. This is needed to make sure parallel DIO and fallocate > >request doesn't take block out of delayed reserve space. > > > >When free blocks count go below a threshold we switch to a slow patch > > s/patch/path/ ?? > > Or, are these patch comments locked in stone for -stable? Yes, I like to keep the changelog identical to what is in Linus's tree as well. thanks, greg k-h -- 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
