From: Greg KH on
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 05:21:43PM +1000, Grant Coady wrote:
> On Mon, 24 May 2010 15:28:00 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
> >
> >------------------
> >
> >
> >From: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> >
> >commit a30d542a0035b886ffaafd0057ced0a2b28c3a4f upstream.
> >
> >With delayed allocation we need to make sure block are reserved before
> >we attempt to allocate them. Otherwise we get block allocation failure
> >(ENOSPC) during writepages which cannot be handled. This would mean
> >silent data loss (We do a printk stating data will be lost). This patch
> >updates the DIO and fallocate code path to do block reservation before
> >block allocation. This is needed to make sure parallel DIO and fallocate
> >request doesn't take block out of delayed reserve space.
> >
> >When free blocks count go below a threshold we switch to a slow patch
>
> s/patch/path/ ??
>
> Or, are these patch comments locked in stone for -stable?

Yes, I like to keep the changelog identical to what is in Linus's tree
as well.

thanks,

greg k-h
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