linux-kernel - Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 12/17] ocfs2: Update syncing after splicing to match generic version

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Message-ID: <20090824183543.GF2818@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:35:43 -0700
From:	Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>
To:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	ocfs2-devel@....oracle.com, Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 12/17] ocfs2: Update syncing after splicing to match generic version

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 07:24:02PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Update ocfs2 specific splicing code to use generic syncing helper. The sync now
> does not happen under rw_lock because generic_write_sync() acquires i_mutex
> which ranks above rw_lock. That should not matter because standard fsync path
> does not hold it either.

Thanks Jan,

Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@...e.com>

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