On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:58:05AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > The WARN_ON checking whether i_mutex is held in > pagecache_isize_extended() was wrong because some filesystems (e.g. > XFS) use different locks for serialization of truncates / writes. So > just remove the check. > > Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> > --- > mm/truncate.c | 1 - > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > Ted can you please merge this patch? I originally sent this patch in a > reply to Fengguangs report and apparently you missed it. Thanks! > > diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c > index 261eaf6e5a19..c646084e5eec 100644 > --- a/mm/truncate.c > +++ b/mm/truncate.c > @@ -755,7 +755,6 @@ void pagecache_isize_extended(struct inode *inode, loff_t from, loff_t to) > struct page *page; > pgoff_t index; > > - WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&inode->i_mutex)); > WARN_ON(to > inode->i_size); > > if (from >= to || bsize == PAGE_CACHE_SIZE) Jan, I'm going to pull this through the XFS tree seeing as nobody else seems to care about it. Should be upstream by the end of the week. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
