On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 03:40:56PM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > Modification of inode->i_state is not safe outside the > inode->i_lock. We never actually set the new bit in i_state, we just use it as a key for the hashed lookups. Or rather we try to, as I misunderstood how wait_on_bit works, so currently we busywait for i_dio_count to reach zero. I'll respin a version that actually works as expected. -- 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