From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Piggin Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] new new aops patchset Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 02:45:16 +0200 Message-ID: <20070403004516.GH12295@wotan.suse.de> References: <20070402120934.GA19626@wotan.suse.de> <1175545093.24533.2.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linux Filesystems , Mark Fasheh , Steven Whitehouse To: Badari Pulavarty Return-path: Received: from cantor2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:46791 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S966129AbXDCApX (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2007 20:45:23 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1175545093.24533.2.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 01:18:13PM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 14:09 +0200, Nick Piggin wrote: > > Updated aops patchset against 2.6.21-rc5. > > > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/npiggin/patches/new-aops/ > > > > Files/dirs are 2.6.21-rc5-new-aops* > > > > Contains numerous fixes from Mark and myself -- I'd say the core code is > > getting reasonably stable at this point. > > > > New stuff: patches from Mark and Steve for the cluster filesystems. > > > > (compile only) patches for NFS, XFS, FUSE, eCryptfs. OK, they're untested, > > but I have tried to put some effort in, so if maintainers would kindly > > take a look... ext3 still needs review and porting to ext4, which I hope > > someone will do eventually (I presume ext3 is still maintained)... does NFS > > have a lock_page vs lock_kernel deadlock in its commit_write? (if yes, this > > is fixable with the new write aops). > > In case of error, write_begin() is *supposed* to unlock and release the > page it locked. Right ? Thanks. BTW. I also had another instance of that problem in the NFS conversion.