Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762721AbZCaRzL (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:55:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759374AbZCaRy4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:54:56 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:36445 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756941AbZCaRyz (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:54:55 -0400 Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:54:52 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Mikulas Patocka Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix bmap-vs-truncate race Message-ID: <20090331175451.GA19484@infradead.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 565 Lines: 14 On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 03:20:24PM -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > Hi > > I'm submitting this patch for 2.6.30 merge window. Please not. i_alloc_sem is really a horrible hack needed for a couple filesystems only and we should not leak it into more generic code but rather move the few instances into the filesystem. -- 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/