From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [patch] fix up lock order reversal in writeback Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:43:04 -0800 Message-ID: <20101122154304.5f78f907.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20101116110058.GA4298@amd> <20101116130146.GG4757@quack.suse.cz> <4CE35A6D.2040906@redhat.com> <20101117043845.GA3586@amd> <4CE362B0.6040607@redhat.com> <20101117061057.GA3989@amd> <4CE49AF5.1080104@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Nick Piggin , Jan Kara , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Sandeen Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:45248 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757791Ab0KVXn0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:43:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4CE49AF5.1080104@redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:18:13 -0600 Eric Sandeen wrote: > On 11/17/10 12:10 AM, Nick Piggin wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:05:52PM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > >> On 11/16/10 10:38 PM, Nick Piggin wrote: > >>>> as for the locking problems ... sorry about that! > >>> > >>> That's no problem. So is that an ack? :) > >>> > >> > >> I'd like to test it with the original case it was supposed to solve; will > >> do that tomorrow. > > > > OK, but it shouldn't make much difference, unless there is a lot of > > strange activity happening on the sb (like mount / umount / remount / > > freeze / etc). > > > > Ok, good point. And since I failed in my promise anyway, I won't > hold you up; > > Acked-by: Eric Sandeen That patch still sucks! We all breathlessly await v2, which will have a complete changelog and approximately correct comments.