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| author | Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> | 2007-10-12 10:37:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-12 18:16:30 +0200 |
| commit | bfab36e81611e60573b84eb4e4b4c8d8545b2320 (patch) | |
| tree | acd151a4c85459dcd2f6575ceb385090ebaaf984 /fs/ntfs/Makefile | |
| parent | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw (diff) | |
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NTFS: Fix a mount time deadlock.
Big thanks go to Mathias Kolehmainen for reporting the bug, providing
debug output and testing the patches I sent him to get it working.
The fix was to stop calling ntfs_attr_set() at mount time as that causes
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() to be called which on systems with
little memory actually tries to go and balance the dirty pages which tries
to take the s_umount semaphore but because we are still in fill_super()
across which the VFS holds s_umount for writing this results in a
deadlock.
We now do the dirty work by hand by submitting individual buffers. This
has the annoying "feature" that mounting can take a few seconds if the
journal is large as we have clear it all. One day someone should improve
on this by deferring the journal clearing to a helper kernel thread so it
can be done in the background but I don't have time for this at the moment
and the current solution works fine so I am leaving it like this for now.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ntfs/Makefile')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ntfs/Makefile | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/Makefile b/fs/ntfs/Makefile index 825508385565..58b6be992544 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/Makefile +++ b/fs/ntfs/Makefile @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ ntfs-objs := aops.o attrib.o collate.o compress.o debug.o dir.o file.o \ index.o inode.o mft.o mst.o namei.o runlist.o super.o sysctl.o \ unistr.o upcase.o -EXTRA_CFLAGS = -DNTFS_VERSION=\"2.1.28\" +EXTRA_CFLAGS = -DNTFS_VERSION=\"2.1.29\" ifeq ($(CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG),y) EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DDEBUG |