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From: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Josef Sipek <jsipek@fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	JFS Discussion <jfs-discussion@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH: 2.6.20-rc4-mm1] JFS: Avoid deadlock introduced by explicit I/O plugging
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:15:30 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1169129730.7295.10.camel@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070118063019.GA31164@filer.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 01:30 -0500, Josef Sipek wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 04:55:49PM -0600, Dave Kleikamp wrote:

> >  /*
> >   *	jfs_lock.h
> > @@ -42,6 +43,7 @@ do {							\
> >  		if (cond)				\
> >  			break;				\
> >  		unlock_cmd;				\
> > +		blk_replug_current_nested();		\
> >  		schedule();				\
> >  		lock_cmd;				\
> >  	}						\
> 
> Is {,un}lock_cmd a macro? ...

They are the commands passed into this macro (as arguments) to
release/take a lock.  This is a home-grown wait_on_event type macro
where the condition must be checked while holding a lock.  And the
commands passed in are themselves macros.  The jfs code could probably
be cleaned up a bit as far as excessive use of macros for locking, but
it's been working for a few years with few problems.

-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center


      reply	other threads:[~2007-01-18 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-17 22:55 Dave Kleikamp
2007-01-17 23:18 ` Jens Axboe
2007-01-17 23:39   ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-01-17 23:46     ` Jens Axboe
2007-01-18  3:23       ` Dave Kleikamp
2007-01-18  6:30 ` Josef Sipek
2007-01-18 14:15   ` Dave Kleikamp [this message]

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