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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/inode.c | |
| parent | f26e51f67ae6a75ffc57b96cf5fe096f75e778cb (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/inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/ntfs/inode.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ntfs/inode.c b/fs/ntfs/inode.c index b532a730cec2..e9da092e2772 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/inode.c +++ b/fs/ntfs/inode.c @@ -34,7 +34,6 @@ #include "dir.h" #include "debug.h" #include "inode.h" -#include "attrib.h" #include "lcnalloc.h" #include "malloc.h" #include "mft.h" @@ -2500,8 +2499,6 @@ retry_truncate: /* Resize the attribute record to best fit the new attribute size. */ if (new_size < vol->mft_record_size && !ntfs_resident_attr_value_resize(m, a, new_size)) { - unsigned long flags; - /* The resize succeeded! */ flush_dcache_mft_record_page(ctx->ntfs_ino); mark_mft_record_dirty(ctx->ntfs_ino); |