linux-ext4 - [PATCH 0/4] ext3: crossport ext3 sb

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Message-ID: <4B268A3C.8060708@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:55:56 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	ext4 development <linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org>
CC:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
Subject: [PATCH 0/4] ext3: crossport ext3 sb_lock changes

I ran into a deadlock in ext3 resize due to orphan list manipulation
and filesystem resizing both wanting to grab the sb_lock, and stepping
on each other.

This patch series backports 4 ext4 commits to ext3, pretty trivial
changes to un-overload the superblock lock.

Thanks,
-Eric
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