Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756325Ab1BCLo4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2011 06:44:56 -0500 Received: from daytona.panasas.com ([67.152.220.89]:10683 "EHLO daytona.panasas.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756289Ab1BCLoz (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Feb 2011 06:44:55 -0500 Message-ID: <4D4A9533.4090304@panasas.com> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:44:51 +0200 From: Boaz Harrosh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.15) Gecko/20101027 Fedora/3.0.10-1.fc12 Thunderbird/3.0.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Piggin CC: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, Roman Zippel , "Tigran A. Aivazian" , OGAWA Hirofumi , Dave Kleikamp , Bob Copeland , reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Evgeniy Dushistov , Jan Kara Subject: Re: [PATCH] exofs: simple fsync race fix References: <20101125074909.GA4160@amd> <4CEE2C2E.4010003@panasas.com> <20101125100603.GA3164@amd> <4CEE3F9F.9070108@panasas.com> <4CEE3FD8.6080202@panasas.com> <20101125115033.GA3643@amd> In-Reply-To: <20101125115033.GA3643@amd> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 03 Feb 2011 11:44:54.0858 (UTC) FILETIME=[C689AAA0:01CBC397] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1057 Lines: 32 On 11/25/2010 01:50 PM, Nick Piggin wrote: > This is fine, we'll get it merged before 2.6.37, just give a couple of > days for review, I haven't had much confirmation from other vfs people > about these problems. > > Thanks, > Nick > Hi Dear Nick. So I was cleaning the table and I fell on this patch. What ever happened to it? should I push it through my tree? Thanks Boaz > On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:52:08PM +0200, Boaz Harrosh wrote: >> From: Nick Piggin >> >> It is incorrect to test inode dirty bits without participating in the inode >> writeback protocol. Inode writeback sets I_SYNC and clears I_DIRTY_?, then >> writes out the particular bits, then clears I_SYNC when it is done. BTW. it >> may not completely write all pages out, so I_DIRTY_PAGES would get set >> again. >> -- 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/