On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 19:00 +0400, Vladimir Saveliev wrote:
> This patch makes generic_sync_sb_inodes to spin lock itself.
> Please, apply this patch. It helps reiser4 to get rid of some oddities.
>
> [snip]
>
> {
> const unsigned long start = jiffies; /* livelock avoidance */
>
> + spin_lock(&inode_lock);
Looking at what jiffies is used for, it is probably is not a big deal,
but you should move the assignment of start to after acquiring the lock,
as that could take quite some time.
Robert Love
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