linux-kernel - Re: [dm-devel] [BUG] kernel 2.6.32.x hangs during boot process

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Date:	Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:25:28 -0500
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:	Fran?ois Figarola <francois.figarola@...onsult.fr>,
	hch@...radead.org, device-mapper development <dm-devel@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [BUG] kernel 2.6.32.x hangs during boot process

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 03:32:41PM +0900, Jun'ichi Nomura wrote:
> When MS_RDONLY, both freeze_bdev and thaw_bdev call deactivate_locked_super,
> which seems wrong. The change was introduced with the commit below:
> 
>   commit 4504230a71566785a05d3e6b53fa1ee071b864eb
>   Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
>   Date:   Mon Aug 3 23:28:35 2009 +0200
> 
>   freeze_bdev: grab active reference to frozen superblocks
> 
> With the attached patch, both remount-ro and remount-rw are
> rejected as EBUSY on freezed device as expected.
> 
> Christoph, do you think this is the right fix?

Indeed, this looks wrong in my original code, and the patch looks like
the correct fix.  Thanks a lot!


Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>

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