On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> > ObReiserfs_panic: what the hell is that ->s_lock bit about? panic()
> > _never_ tries to do any block IO. It looks like a rudiment of something
> > that hadn't been there for 5 years, if not longer. The same goes for
> > ext2_panic() and ufs_panic(), BTW... I would suggest crapectomey here.
>
> Ugh, that should have been dragged out and shot...patch will come in the AM.
>
Unfortunately it's nastier than I thought. panic() does sys_sync(). And
IMO it really shouldn't. Notice that ->s_lock doesn't prevent ->write_inode()
and friends from being called.
I suspect that the right fix is to drop the ->s_lock bogosity along with
sys_sync() call in panic()...
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