Re: [new patch 3/3] fs: fix cont vs deadlock patches

From: OGAWA Hirofumi
Date: Sat Dec 02 2006 - 04:43:44 EST


Nick Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxx> writes:

>> I see. I guess you need to synchronise your writepage versus this
>> extention in order to handle it properly then. I won't bother with
>> that though: it won't be worse than it was before.
>>
>> Thanks for review, do you agree with the other hunks?
>
> Well, Andrew's got the rest of the patches in his tree, so I'll send
> what we've got for now. Has had some testing on both reiserfs and
> fat. Doesn't look like the other filesystems using cont_prepare_write
> will have any problems...
>
> Andrew, please apply this patch as a replacement for the fat-fix
> patch in your rollup (this patch includes the same fix, and is a
> more logical change unit I think).

I'm confused. I couldn't track what is final patchset. Anyway, I'll
see and test your final patchset in -mm.

Thanks.
--
OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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