https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16334 --- Comment #1 from Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> 2010-07-09 21:39:36 --- On Friday, July 09, 2010, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:34:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16334 > > > Subject : reiserfs locking (v2) > > > Submitter : Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx> > > > Date : 2010-07-02 9:34 (7 days old) > > > Message-ID : <20100702093451.GA3973@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127806306303590&w=2 > > > > Frederic? Al? I assume this is some late fallout from the BKL removal > > ages ago.. It's the old filldir-vs-mmap crud, but normally it should > > be impossible to trigger because the inode for a directory should > > never be mmap'able, so we should never have the same i_mutex lock used > > for both mmap and for filldir protection. > > > > We saw some of that oddity long ago, I wonder if it's lockdep being > > confused about some inodes. > > > > I think it has been there from the beginning. At least it was there before > the reiserfs bkl removal in .32. > > > Indeed the readdir <-> unmap/release inversion problem can not happen. > But Al said that can happen between write and release. (Although I don't see > where write takes the inode mutex). > > He also highlighted the fact that reiserfs refcounting based on i_count > was totally broken. > > He has a fix the whole in the vfs tree, in the for-next branch on commit > 6c2bdaf089a3876226893fab00dd83596c465ad2 > "Fix reiserfs_file_release()" > > No more uses of the i_mutex on release after that, nor i_count, but a private > openers refcount and a tailpack mutex per reiserfs inode. > > > -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe reiserfs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
