From: Andrey Panin <pazke@orbita1.ru>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove unneeded inode semaphores from driverfs
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:12:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020226101208.GA285@pazke.ipt> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020226085946.GB278@pazke.ipt> <20020226085952.GA30564@kroah.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020226085952.GA30564@kroah.com>
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On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 12:59:53AM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:59:46AM +0300, Andrey Panin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > __remove_file() in driverfs/inode.c calls down(&dentry->d_inode->i_sem)
> > before calling vfs_unlink(dentry->d_parent->d_inode,dentry) which
> > tries to claim the same semaphore causing the livelock.
> > driverfs_remove_dir() makes the same calling vfs_rmdir().
>
> What kernel version did you generate this patch for? This patch doesn't
> apply at all to 2.5.5, and it looks like this problem is already fixed.
It's against 2.5.5-pre1, I was out of the net for some days and
couldn't check final 2.5.5.
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Andrey Panin | Embedded systems software engineer
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-26 8:59 Andrey Panin
2002-02-26 8:59 ` Greg KH
2002-02-26 10:12 ` Andrey Panin [this message]
2002-02-26 16:53 ` Patrick Mochel
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