linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH -v2] delalloc and journal locking order inversion fixes

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Date:	Fri, 30 May 2008 10:51:06 -0700
From:	Mingming <cmm@...ibm.com>
To:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	jack@...e.cz, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -v2] delalloc and journal locking order inversion fixes

On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 19:09 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> The below set of patches gets the delalloc work with journal locking
> order inversion patches.
> 
> The series file look like
> 
> + ext4-new-defm-options
> + ext4-call-blkdev_issue_flush-on-fsync.patch
> 0001-ext4-Use-page_mkwrite-vma_operations-to-get-mmap-wr.patch
> + ext4_ialloc-flexbg.patch
> 0002-ext4-Inverse-locking-order-of-page_lock-and-transac.patch
> 0003-vfs-Move-mark_inode_dirty-from-under-page-lock-in.patch
> 0004-ext4-Add-validation-to-jbd-lock-inversion-patch-and.patch
> + delalloc-vfs.patch
> + ext4-fix-fs-corruption-with-delalloc.patch
> + delalloc-ext4.patch
> + delalloc-ext4-release-page-when-write_begin-failed.patch
> + delalloc-ext4-preallocation-handling.patch
> ...
> ...
> .....
> + vfs-fiemap.patch
> + ext4-add-ext4_ext_walk_space.patch
> + ext4-fiemap.patch
> 0005-ext4-inverse-locking-ordering-of-page_lock-and-tra.patch
> 0006-ext4-Fix-delalloc-sync-hang-with-journal-lock-inver.patch
> 
> I have pushed the lock inversion patches and related changes to the
> top of the patch queue expecting it can be pushed upstream before
> delalloc changes.
> 
> 
Thanks for fixing this up.

Reviewed-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@...ibm.com>

Added the series to patch queue.

Mingming
> -aneesh
> 
> 

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