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

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Date:	Fri, 30 May 2008 19:09:23 +0530
From:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	cmm@...ibm.com, jack@...e.cz
Cc:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH -v2] delalloc and journal locking order inversion fixes

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.


-aneesh


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