From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754113Ab3LNT1m (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Dec 2013 14:27:42 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:58664 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753989Ab3LNT1D (ORCPT ); Sat, 14 Dec 2013 14:27:03 -0500 Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 09:30:11 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: Dave Chinner Cc: Tejun Heo , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Jens Axboe , tomaz.solc@tablix.org, aaron.lu@intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Oleg Nesterov , Fengguang Wu Subject: Re: Writeback threads and freezable Message-ID: <20131214173011.GF22520@kroah.com> References: <20131213174932.GA27070@htj.dyndns.org> <20131214015343.GP31386@dastard> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20131214015343.GP31386@dastard> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 12:53:43PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote: > > Ideas? > > Fix the device delete error handling not to re-enter the > filesystem and IO path. It's just wrong. That sounds totally reasonable to me, what is preventing someone from making this change? thanks, greg k-h