>[..] But it doesn't fix
Woops, I seen one problem. Could you try again after applying this
incremental fix over your current tree?
--- 2.2.14pre9-buf-races/fs/buffer.c.~1~ Wed Dec 1 00:55:05 1999
+++ 2.2.14pre9-buf-races/fs/buffer.c Wed Dec 1 00:59:05 1999
@@ -627,14 +627,13 @@
bhnext = bh->b_next_free;
if (bh->b_dev != dev)
continue;
- if (!destroy_dirty_buffers && buffer_dirty(bh))
- continue;
if (buffer_locked(bh))
{
slept = 1;
__wait_on_buffer(bh);
}
- if (!bh->b_count)
+ if (!bh->b_count &&
+ (destroy_dirty_buffers || !buffer_dirty(bh)))
put_last_free(bh);
if (slept)
goto again;
A new global patch against stock 2.2.14pre9 is here:
ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/patches/v2.2/2.2.14pre9/buffer-races-3.gz
Andrea
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