Re: Oops in 2.2.15 with NWFS using the Linux Buffer Cache SMP

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2000 - 06:56:32 EST


   Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 03:16:50 -0700
   From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.com>

   Is it required that I hold the kernel lock with lock_kernel() over
   the Linux Buffer Cache when doing I/O to it in 2.2.15?

Yes. The buffer cache was not thread safe until I did that
work circa ~2.3.13 or so.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com

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