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mm: xip/ext2 fix block allocation race
authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:09:20 +0000 (14:09 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:40:32 +0000 (15:40 -0700)
commit14a7097f617d4307b8dcded1bebc8f4e9339199b
tree5148a0440674ef618a5af4e1b549794db9f783c1
parentbe3d6796b4709b194584391ab90c93369f415037
mm: xip/ext2 fix block allocation race

XIP can call into get_xip_mem concurrently with the same file,offset with
create=1.  This usually maps down to get_block, which expects the page
lock to prevent such a situation.  This causes ext2 to explode for one
reason or another.

Serialise those calls for the moment.  For common usages today, I suspect
get_xip_mem rarely is called to create new blocks.  In future as XIP
technologies evolve we might need to look at which operations require
scalability, and rework the locking to suit.

Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@freenet.de>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/filemap_xip.c