Re: [reiserfs-dev] [patch 5/15] reiserfs locking fix

[Chris Mason]

On Sun, 2002-05-19 at 15:39, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> 
> reiserfs is using b_inode_buffers and fsync_buffers_list() for
> attaching dependent buffers to its journal.  For writeout prior to
> commit.
> 
> This worked OK when a global lock was used everywhere, but the locking
> is currently incorrect - try_to_free_buffers() is taking a different
> lock when detaching buffers from their "foreign" inode.  So list_head
> corruption could occur on SMP.

Thanks Andrew, this is working for me here.

-chris