linux-ext4 - Re: [patch] fix up lock order reversal in writeback

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Date:	Mon, 22 Nov 2010 15:43:04 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] fix up lock order reversal in writeback

On Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:18:13 -0600
Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> 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 <sandeen@...hat.com>

That patch still sucks!

We all breathlessly await v2, which will have a complete changelog and
approximately correct comments.

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