Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263036AbVCQJ7y (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2005 04:59:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263039AbVCQJ7n (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2005 04:59:43 -0500 Received: from ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com ([24.24.2.57]:49545 "EHLO ms-smtp-03.nyroc.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263036AbVCQJ7J (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2005 04:59:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 04:58:59 -0500 (EST) From: Steven Rostedt X-X-Sender: rostedt@localhost.localdomain Reply-To: rostedt@goodmis.org To: Andrew Morton cc: mingo@elte.hu, rlrevell@joe-job.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] j_state_lock, j_list_lock, remove-bitlocks In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20050315120053.GA4686@elte.hu> <20050315133540.GB4686@elte.hu> <20050316085029.GA11414@elte.hu> <20050316011510.2a3bdfdb.akpm@osdl.org> <20050316095155.GA15080@elte.hu> <20050316020408.434cc620.akpm@osdl.org> <20050316101906.GA17328@elte.hu> <20050316024022.6d5c4706.akpm@osdl.org> <20050316031909.08e6cab7.akpm@osdl.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 680 Lines: 19 On Wed, 16 Mar 2005, Steven Rostedt wrote: > [...] There's a couple of places that > jbd_trylock_bh_state is used in checkpoint.c, but this is the one place > that it definitely deadlocks the system. I believe that the > code in checkpoint.c also has this problem. > I've examined the code in checkpoint.c, and I now believe that it doesn't have this problem. When it fails a lock, it just falls out of the while loops. -- Steve - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/