linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 0/6 v7] ext4: fix 1k block bugs

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Date:	Wed, 07 Sep 2011 11:41:14 -0700
From:	Allison Henderson <achender@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	"Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6 v7] ext4: fix 1k block bugs

On 09/06/2011 09:38 AM, Allison Henderson wrote:
> On 09/05/2011 09:59 PM, Ted Ts'o wrote:
>> Allison,
>>
>> Many, many thanks for your work on this patch series!! It's clearly
>> been a very long slog.
>>
>> I've pulled in the first three patches, since I think those are
>> clearly correct at this point. One minor change I've made was I fixed
>> the spelling the flag, which I channged to
>> EXT4_DISCARD_PARTIAL_PG_ZERO_UNMAPPED. (Sorry, but seeing MAPED
>> everywhere was just grating on my nerves. :-)
>>
>> I didn't want to apply your 4th patch in the series since we're
>> planning on reducing the usage of i_mutex in the fs/ext4 code proper,
>> as recommended by Christoph. It wasn't immediately obvious to me
>> whether it was safe to apply any of the patches after #4, so for now
>> I've just merged in the first three, since they clearly fix real
>> problems that show up in xfstests.
>>
>> Can you comment on whether patches #5, #6, and #7 depend on #4?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> - Ted
>
> Hi Ted,
>
> Patches 5 and 6 do not depend on 4, and this set only has 6 patches, so
> no need to worry about patch 7 :) So it is ok to just skip patch 4, I
> will see if I can find another way to solve the race conditions
> Yongqiang pointed out with out the use of i_mutex. Many thanks to you
> too for all the help along the way. :)
>
> Allison Henderson
>

Hi Ted,

I've been working on another way to resolve the punch hole races with 
out i_mutex, and Im starting to think that maybe we're going to need 
another semaphore some where.  Can I ask what the plans are for reducing 
the usage of i_mutex in ext4?  I wasnt sure if someone might already be 
doing this.  Thx!

Allison Henderson

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