Re: [PATCH v2] fs: Fix hang with BSD accounting on frozen filesystem

From: Al Viro
Date: Sat May 04 2013 - 14:59:28 EST


On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 12:11:23AM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> When BSD process accounting is enabled and logs information to a
> filesystem which gets frozen, system easily becomes unusable because
> each attempt to account process information blocks. Thus e.g. every task
> gets blocked in exit.
>
> It seems better to drop accounting information (which can already happen
> when filesystem is running out of space) instead of locking system up.
> So we just skip the write if the filesystem is frozen.

Applied, with one modification - file_start_write_trylock() added and
used instead of sb_start_write_trylock()
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