Re: [PATCH RT 07/13] Revert "fs: jbd2: pull your plug when waiting for space"

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Wed Jan 17 2018 - 10:47:11 EST


On 2018-01-17 10:14:11 [-0500], Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 3.18.91-rt98-rc1 stable review patch.
> If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
>
> ------------------
>
> From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This reverts commit "fs: jbd2: pull your plug when waiting for space".
> This was a duct-tape fix which shouldn't be needed since commit
> "locking/rt-mutex: fix deadlock in device mapper / block-IO".
>
> Cc: stable-rt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

you could also revert 3b5cf23e6b87 ("fs, jbd: pull your plug when
waiting for space") which is the same thing but for ext3/jbd.

The code was removed at some point so I did not revert in my tree.

Sebastian