> I'm just not going to apply weird hacks to work around a bug which
> I do not understand, and I have spent way too much time trying to understand
> this one.
I suggest you apply patch #5 "balance dirty pages from loop device"
and see for yourself the same deadlock with a simple loopback mount.
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:37:06 +0100 Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sigh. What's this about i_mutex? That appears to be some critical
> > information which _still_ isn't being communicated.
> >
>
> This:
>
> ssize_t generic_file_aio_write(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *i
> > > > This deadlock happens, when dirty pages from one filesystem are
> > > > written back through another filesystem. It easiest to demonstrate
> > > > with fuse although it could affect looback mounts as well (see
> > > > following patches).
> > > >
> > > > Let's call the filesystems A(bove)
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:35:28 +0100 Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > This deadlock happens, when dirty pages from one filesystem are
> > > written back through another filesystem. It easiest to demonstrate
> > > with fuse although it could affect looback mounts as well (see
> > > fo
> > This deadlock happens, when dirty pages from one filesystem are
> > written back through another filesystem. It easiest to demonstrate
> > with fuse although it could affect looback mounts as well (see
> > following patches).
> >
> > Let's call the filesystems A(bove) and B(elow). Process Pr
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 23:38:12 +0100 Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> This deadlock happens, when dirty pages from one filesystem are
> written back through another filesystem. It easiest to demonstrate
> with fuse although it could affect lo
From: Miklos Szeredi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This deadlock happens, when dirty pages from one filesystem are
written back through another filesystem. It easiest to demonstrate
with fuse although it could affect looback mounts as well (see
following patches).
Let's call the filesystems A(bove) and B(
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