From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from snowcrash.cymru.net (snowcrash.cymru.net [163.164.160.3]) by kvack.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA22503 for ; Sun, 10 Jan 1999 14:38:14 -0500 Message-Id: From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) Subject: Re: MM deadlock [was: Re: arca-vm-8...] Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 20:33:57 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: from "Linus Torvalds" at Jan 10, 99 11:09:31 am Content-Type: text Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, sct@redhat.com, saw@msu.ru, andrea@e-mind.com, steve@netplus.net, ebiederm+eric@ccr.net, damonbrent@earthlink.net, reese@isn.net, kalle.andersson@mbox303.swipnet.se, Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr, bmccann@indusriver.com, bredelin@ucsd.edu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: > On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Suspect makes me kind of nervous. Especially so close to 2.2 and given the > > normal results of making a bad file system error. > > Umm.. The other choice is to leave in an old deadlock condition - that is > now well documented and thus wellknown? Or to defer the I/O to the unlock -- This is a majordomo managed list. To unsubscribe, send a message with the body 'unsubscribe linux-mm me@address' to: majordomo@kvack.org