Jan Kara <j...@suse.cz> writes: >> Just to be clear, are you saying you would like me to remove the >> mutex_lock/unlock pair from ext4_sync_file? (I had already factored out >> the common code between this new code path and the fsync path in my tree.) > Yes, after some thinking I came to that conclusion. We actually need to > keep i_mutex around ext4_flush_unwritten_io() to avoid livelocks but the > rest doesn't need it. The change should be definitely a separate patch just > in case there's something subtle I missed and we need to bisect in > future... I've attached a patch for that so that blame for bugs goes my way > ;) Compile tested only so far. I'll give it some more testing overnight.
Great, thanks Jan! I'll include this in the next posting. Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
