From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
To: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] __bd_forget should wait for inodes using the mapping
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:43:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040618154330.GY12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1087573303.8002.172.camel@watt.suse.com>
On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 11:41:43AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> > And yes, ->i_mapping flips on "normal" bdev inodes will go away - we set
> > ->f_mapping on open directly.
>
> Fair enough, I'll cook up some code to bump the inode->bdev->bd_inode
> i_count in __sync_single_inode It won't be pretty either though, I'll
> have to drop the inode_lock so that some function can take the bdev_lock
> to safely use inode->i_bdev.
*Ugh*
You do realize that ->i_bdev is not promised to be there either? Could you
show the actual code that steps into this mess?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-18 15:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-18 1:54 Chris Mason
2004-06-18 2:01 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-18 2:10 ` viro
2004-06-18 13:03 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-18 14:22 ` viro
2004-06-18 14:47 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-18 15:15 ` viro
2004-06-18 15:41 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-18 15:43 ` viro [this message]
2004-06-18 16:05 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-18 20:26 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-18 20:44 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-18 21:27 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-18 23:15 ` Chris Mason
2004-06-18 23:25 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-18 14:20 ` Chris Mason
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