Re: correction: fs/buffer.c underlocking async pages

Andrea Arcangeli (andrea@suse.de)
Thu, 21 Jun 2001 17:24:33 +0200


On Thu, Jun 21, 2001 at 11:16:42AM -0400, Chris Mason wrote:
> Think of a mixture of fsync_inode_buffers and async i/o on page. Since
> fsync_inode_buffers uses ll_rw_block, if that end_io handler is the last to
> run the page never gets unlocked.

correct

Andrea
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