linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 2/3] ext4: fix inode rwsem regression

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Date:   Mon, 23 Sep 2019 09:18:14 -0400
From:   "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>
To:     Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:     Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.de>,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, hch@...radead.org, andres@...razel.de,
        david@...morbit.com, riteshh@...ux.ibm.com,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ext4: fix inode rwsem regression

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 12:10:42PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Wed 11-09-19 11:45:16, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> > From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.com>
> > 
> > This is similar to 942491c9e6d6 ("xfs: fix AIM7 regression")
> > Apparently our current rwsem code doesn't like doing the trylock, then
> > lock for real scheme.  So change our read/write methods to just do the
> > trylock for the RWF_NOWAIT case.
> > 
> > Fixes: 728fbc0e10b7 ("ext4: nowait aio support")
> > Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@...e.com>
> 
> Thanks for fixing this! The patch looks good to me. You can add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
> 
> BTW, I've also added Ted as ext4 maintainer to CC.

Thanks, I've been following along, and once the merge window is over
I'll start going through the patch backlog.

Cheers,

						- Ted