linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 04 Jul 2011 09:54:44 +0100
From:	Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>
To:	Josef Bacik <josef@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: push i_mutex and filemap_write_and_wait down into
 ->fsync() handlers

Hi,

On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 11:35 -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> Btrfs needs to be able to control how filemap_write_and_wait_range() is called
> in fsync to make it less of a painful operation, so push down taking i_mutex and
> the calling of filemap_write_and_wait() down into the ->fsync() handlers.  Some
> file systems can drop taking the i_mutex altogether it seems, like ext3 and
> ocfs2.  For correctness sake I just pushed everything down in all cases to make
> sure that we keep the current behavior the same for everybody, and then each
> individual fs maintainer can make up their mind about what to do from there.
> Thanks,
> 
> Signed-off-by: Josef Bacik <josef@...hat.com>

The GFS2 bit looks ok to me...
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@...hat.com>

Steve.


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/