From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, proski@gnu.org, kpfleming@cox.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fw: [Bugme-new] [Bug 1242] New: devfs oops with SMP kernel (not in UP mode)
Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 13:48:44 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040104134844.1aa69452.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200401041932.40960.arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 16 September 2003 08:27, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Andrey,
> >
> > didn't we fix this?
> >
> >
>
> Sorry for delay. Oops is due to concurrent d_instantiate on the same dentry;
> the bug was unfortunately quite ugly to fix inside devfs itself.
Andrey, thanks for working on this. It is good to have a go-to guy for
devfs problems. They all seem to be nasty nowadays.
> The attached patch makes sure d_revalidate is always called under parent i_sem
> allowing it to drop and reacquire semaphore before going to wait. It provides
> both mutual exclusion with devfs_lookup and between d_revalidate, fixing
Alas, people will have a heart-attack over the fs/namei.c changes. Is it
not possible to add an additional semaphore into devfs to provide this
exclusion? Are there any alternatives you can think of?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-04 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20030915212755.5017acc7.akpm@osdl.org>
2004-01-04 16:32 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-04 16:49 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2004-01-04 21:48 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-01-13 8:33 ` Pavel Roskin
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