Re: [PATCH] Quota locking

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Mar 17 2004 - 13:33:23 EST


Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I've extracted the locking changes from journalled quota patch
> relevant for vanilla kernel (basically fixes the lock ordering in some
> cases). The patch also includes documentation of the quota locking.

Sure, I'll queue that up. It breaks the journalled quota patches of course,
so I dropped those.

Is the same code as was in the journalled quota patch? If so, it's
reasonably well tested.

I assume you'll be reworking the ext3 journalled quota patches?

> The patch is not trivial so are you willing to accept it in the vanilla
> kernel?

Sure. Probably soon after 2.6.5 is released?
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