linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] ubifs: remove broken lazytime support

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Date:   Wed, 25 Mar 2020 18:51:59 +0300
From:   Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
        Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>, linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
        Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] ubifs: remove broken lazytime support

Hello!

On 03/25/2020 03:28 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> When "ubifs: introduce UBIFS_ATIME_SUPPORT to ubifs" introduces atime
> support to ubifs, it also lazytime support, but that support is
                           ^ includes?

> terminally broken, as it causes mark_inode_dirty_sync to be called from
> __writeback_single_inode, which will then trigger the locking assert
> in ubifs_dirty_inode.  Just remove this broken support for now, it can
> be readded later, especially as some infrastructure changes should
> make that easier soon.
> 
> Fixes: 8c1c5f263833 ("ubifs: introduce UBIFS_ATIME_SUPPORT to ubifs")
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
[...]

MBR, Sergei