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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 /Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt | |
| parent | f26e51f67ae6a75ffc57b96cf5fe096f75e778cb (diff) | |
| download | linux-bfab36e81611e60573b84eb4e4b4c8d8545b2320.tar.gz | |
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 'Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index 8ee10ec882936d..e79ee2db183a0a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ raiddev /dev/md0 device /dev/hda5 raid-disk 0 device /dev/hdb1 - raid-disl 1 + raid-disk 1 For linear raid, just change the raid-level above to "raid-level linear", for mirrors, change it to "raid-level 1", and for stripe sets with parity, change @@ -457,6 +457,8 @@ ChangeLog Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog. +2.1.29: + - Fix a deadlock when mounting read-write. 2.1.28: - Fix a deadlock. 2.1.27: |