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| author |   Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> | 2007-10-12 09:37:15 +0100 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-10-12 09:16:30 -0700 |
| commit | bfab36e81611e60573b84eb4e4b4c8d8545b2320 (patch) | |
| tree | acd151a4c85459dcd2f6575ceb385090ebaaf984 /fs/ntfs/runlist.c | |
| parent | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-nmw (diff) | |
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NTFS: Fix a mount time deadlock.
Big thanks go to Mathias Kolehmainen for reporting the bug, providing
debug output and testing the patches I sent him to get it working.
The fix was to stop calling ntfs_attr_set() at mount time as that causes
balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() to be called which on systems with
little memory actually tries to go and balance the dirty pages which tries
to take the s_umount semaphore but because we are still in fill_super()
across which the VFS holds s_umount for writing this results in a
deadlock.
We now do the dirty work by hand by submitting individual buffers. This
has the annoying "feature" that mounting can take a few seconds if the
journal is large as we have clear it all. One day someone should improve
on this by deferring the journal clearing to a helper kernel thread so it
can be done in the background but I don't have time for this at the moment
and the current solution works fine so I am leaving it like this for now.
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ntfs/runlist.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ntfs/runlist.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/runlist.c b/fs/ntfs/runlist.c index 9afd72c7ad0d..56a9a6d25a2a 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/runlist.c +++ b/fs/ntfs/runlist.c @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /** * runlist.c - NTFS runlist handling code. Part of the Linux-NTFS project. * - * Copyright (c) 2001-2005 Anton Altaparmakov + * Copyright (c) 2001-2007 Anton Altaparmakov * Copyright (c) 2002-2005 Richard Russon * * This program/include file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or @@ -1714,7 +1714,7 @@ extend_hole: sizeof(*rl)); /* Adjust the beginning of the tail if necessary. */ if (end > rl->vcn) { - s64 delta = end - rl->vcn; + delta = end - rl->vcn; rl->vcn = end; rl->length -= delta; /* Only adjust the lcn if it is real. */ |