On Thu 08-08-13 17:36:06, Jeff Mahoney wrote: > This patchset untangles some of the locking in reiserfs. It has seen more > testing as part of the maintenance cycle in SLE 11 SP2. > > - We push the write lock out of the xattr code. It doesn't need it and > we can simplify locking by releasing and reacquiring the locks around > the xattr calls. > > - Handle nested locks properly. There's confusion on when a lock is nested, > when it's not, and how to drop it across schedules like the BKL it is > modeled after. We make the distinction between taking/releasing the lock > and when to drop it for schedules and simplify the logic. This fixes > a number of deadlocks that happen because the intention was to drop > the write lock but it really only decremented the use count. > > - Fix the deadlocks with the quota code. This involves dropping the write > lock before quota calls and reacquring it afterwards. Without this patch > reiserfs quotas are essentially unusable. > > Previous postings of this patchset were mismerged. > > This revision integrates Jan's advice about search_by_key_reada returning > the depth instead of a bool. > > Jan - This series is in the for-3.12 branch of > git.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeffm/linux-reiserfs.git Thanks! I've pulled this series to my tree. Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR -- 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
