On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 04:08:05PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 02:50:16PM -0600, Steve Lord wrote:
> > > Daniel, can you try this patch, I do not have a sure fire way of
> > > triggering this problem on my hardware. The problem appears to be
> > > related to locking differences between Irix and Linux (again), the
> > > strategy call in Irix is called with the buffer locked for the
> > > duration, which means no one can change the underlying extents.
> > > In the Linux case we have one page locked, and anything else in
> > > the system can truncate the file out underneath us - we end up
> > > allocating a new extent from scratch rather than turning a delalloc
> > > into a real extent, this causes the extent to trip.
> >
> > If you can get the linux inode semaphore it'll stop the truncates.
>
> And deadlock when this code is callout out of a system call which already
> has the inode lock....
>
> I think this one is nasty!
When the inode lock is already held there are no truncates to race.
When it is not gotten by all calling paths I guess you can just change the
callers to aquire it first.
-Andi
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