On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 11:57:15PM +0000, Dilger, Andreas wrote: > However, looking more closely at the upstream kernel, I see that this > code was changed by Dmitry Monakhov in v2.6.34-rc7-16-g84061e0 to > move the counters after journal init (almost the same as Hongchao's > patch does) but then you submitted a patch v2.6.37-rc1-3-gce7e010 > to initialize the percpu counters are both before and after the > journal is loaded. It isn't clear from your commit comment why > the patch to load them both before and after was needed? I can't remembe the code path that was referencing one or more of the percpu counters, it must have been some non-common corner case, since we didn't notice the issue right away, but I believe that's why the change was made. My bad for not including more details in the commit description.... - Ted -- 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
