On Thu, 31 May 2007 15:46:48 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > I_LOCK was used for several unrelated purposes, which caused deadlock > > situations in certain filesystems as a side effect. One of the purposes > > now uses the new I_SYNC bit. > > Do we know what those deadlocks were? It's a bit of a mystery patch > otherwise. > > Put yourself in the position of random-distro-engineer wondering "should I > backport this?".
The logfs deadlock is well-known. All others are very handwavy and may or may not really exist. Will resend with description and without the jfs comment. > > Also document the various bits and change their order from historical to > > logical. > > What a nice comment you added ;) And now I know how to bribe you into accepting patches. ;) Jörn -- Unless something dramatically changes, by 2015 we'll be largely wondering what all the fuss surrounding Linux was really about. -- Rob Enderle - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
