From: Jason Lunz <lunz@falooley.org>
To: jffs-dev@axis.com
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
stable@kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: jffs2 deadlock introduced in linux 2.6.22.5
Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:26:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070831212636.GB12868@falooley.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070830182354.GA25077@falooley.org>
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 11:23:55AM -0700, Jason Lunz wrote:
> commit 1d8715b388c978b0f1b1bf4812fcee0e73b023d7 was added between
> 2.6.22.4 and 2.6.22.5 to cure a locking problem, but it seems to have
> introduced another (worse?) one.
I spoke too soon. I checked more carefully, and this problem was
introduced somewhere between 2.6.21 and 2.6.22. The jffs2 fix in
2.6.22.5 isn't the culprit.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-31 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-30 18:23 Jason Lunz
2007-08-31 21:26 ` Jason Lunz [this message]
2007-08-31 21:32 ` Jesper Juhl
2007-09-01 19:06 ` [jffs2] [rfc] fix write deadlock regression Jason Lunz
2007-09-02 4:20 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-02 12:13 ` David Woodhouse
2007-09-02 13:20 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-02 13:48 ` David Woodhouse
2007-09-02 14:17 ` Nick Piggin
2007-09-02 16:15 ` David Woodhouse
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