Re: 2.4.2-ac calls FS truncate w/o BKL

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > > The added vmtruncate calls in the ac series trigger calls to the FS > truncate without the BKL held. Easy enough to fix on the reiserfs side, > but if other filesystems care we might want to change vmtruncate to grab > the lock before calling

2.4.2-ac calls FS truncate w/o BKL

The added vmtruncate calls in the ac series trigger calls to the FS truncate without the BKL held. Easy enough to fix on the reiserfs side, but if other filesystems care we might want to change vmtruncate to grab the lock before calling truncate (and update the Locking doc ;-) -chris - To

2.4.2-ac calls FS truncate w/o BKL

The added vmtruncate calls in the ac series trigger calls to the FS truncate without the BKL held. Easy enough to fix on the reiserfs side, but if other filesystems care we might want to change vmtruncate to grab the lock before calling truncate (and update the Locking doc ;-) -chris - To

Re: 2.4.2-ac calls FS truncate w/o BKL

On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote: The added vmtruncate calls in the ac series trigger calls to the FS truncate without the BKL held. Easy enough to fix on the reiserfs side, but if other filesystems care we might want to change vmtruncate to grab the lock before calling truncate