(Chris, your point about lock ordering is good. Zach raised the same one. Thanks for the good catch there guys). On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 08:58:06AM -0800, Zach Brown wrote: > > > Is ocfs2 immune to the races that get covered by this patch? > > I haven't the slightest idea. Well, they would be covered with the new scheme anyway: > > Hmm, actually possibly we can enter page_mkwrite with the page unlocked, > > but exit with the page locked? Slightly more complex, but should save > > complexity elsewhere. Yes I think this might be the best way to go. > > That sounds like it would work on first glance, yeah. Mark will yell at > us if we've gotten it wrong ;). OK, thanks. I'll go with that approach and see what happens. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
