On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 4:14 AM, McPacino <mcpacino@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 7:09 AM, Andrew Morton >> <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 18:07:10 +0800 >>> Cong Meng <mcpacino@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> > I sent this patch half mount ago, but no response at all. If anything is >>> > wrong, please tell me. Thanks a lots. This is my first time to send patch >>> > to linux kernel. >>> > >>> > The invocation of __getblk(bdev, block, size) will cause kernel stall if >>> > the @size parameter is not equal to the blockr-size of @bdev, which is saved >>> > in bdev->bd_inode->i_blkbits. >>> > >>> > submit_bh() has the similar problem. >>> > >>> > This patch calculates the block-size using i_blkbits. >>> > So that, for example, __getblk() can get a 4K buffer head while the >>> > block-size of @bdev is 1K. >>> > >>> >>> This comes up every couple of years and iirc we always decided that >>> it's a bug in the calling code somewhere. How did you hit it? >>> >> >> I am working on a new multi-version snapshot target module for device-mapper >> which is almost done. > > And you hope to have this code included upstream? Do you intend to > post your patches to dm-devel? > Of course, yes. The code is almost finished and is being tested. I will post it few weeks later if everything goes well. > Thanks, > Mike > -- 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
