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

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Message-ID: <20101117061057.GA3989@amd>
Date:	Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:10:57 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...nel.dk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	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 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).

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