Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753833AbZDNDek (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:34:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752335AbZDNDe3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:34:29 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.158]:53200 "EHLO fg-out-1718.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751838AbZDNDe3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:34:29 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer; b=kxYtoSexVMRU2Z3xFVof4V+Gv5RNSDFBSHxyemDt4+XpAn3o7znGs8/NeRpncKUFcW 8IxeT+Kb4PxaHQCv49UTroXZhkowRq0v98EjNgN+vB09IoXfHIWPEpbHmmRDUfmUUimI qxw6Z12IwOqg8ozLhO7/MpEgbBcup3vfGOQck= From: Frederic Weisbecker To: Ingo Molnar Cc: LKML , Frederic Weisbecker , Alessio Igor Bogani , Jeff Mahoney , ReiserFS Development List , Alexander Beregalov , Chris Mason Subject: [PATCH 0/3] kill-the-BKL/reiserfs: reiserfs fixes Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2009 05:34:22 +0200 Message-Id: <1239680065-25013-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.6.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1130 Lines: 30 Ingo, This small patchset fixes some deadlocks I've faced after trying some pressures with dbench on a reiserfs partition. There is still some work pending such as adding some checks to ensure we _always_ release the lock before sleeping, as you suggested. Also I have to fix a lockdep warning reported by Alessio Igor Bogani. And also some optimizations.... Thanks, Frederic. Frederic Weisbecker (3): kill-the-BKL/reiserfs: provide a tool to lock only once the write lock kill-the-BKL/reiserfs: lock only once in reiserfs_truncate_file kill-the-BKL/reiserfs: only acquire the write lock once in reiserfs_dirty_inode fs/reiserfs/inode.c | 10 +++++++--- fs/reiserfs/lock.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ fs/reiserfs/super.c | 15 +++++++++------ include/linux/reiserfs_fs.h | 2 ++ 4 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) -- 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/