Re: Boot failure with ext2 and initrds
From: Alex Tomas
Date: Thu Nov 16 2006 - 04:40:25 EST
>>>>> Andrew Morton (AM) writes:
AM> What lock protects the fields in struct ext[234]_reserve_window from being
AM> concurrently modified by two CPUs? None, it seems. Ditto
AM> ext[234]_reserve_window_node. i_mutex will cover it for write(), but not
AM> for pageout over a file hole. If we end up with a zero- or negative-sized
AM> window then odd things might happen.
truncate_mutex?
thanks, Alex
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