One quick question: On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:11:05 -0700 Allison Henderson <achender@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > + /* Secure delete any blocks still in our range */ > + if (jbd2_pblk_count > 0) > + err = ext4_secure_delete_pblks(journal->j_inode, > + jbd2_pblk_start, jbd2_pblk_count); > + > +out: > + spin_unlock(&journal->j_pair_lock); ext4_secure_delete_pblks() appears to do its job synchronously - it has calls to things like sync_dirty_buffer() and such. How can you do that while holding ->j_pair_lock? Thanks, jon -- 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