From bfab36e81611e60573b84eb4e4b4c8d8545b2320 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Altaparmakov Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:37:15 +0100 Subject: NTFS: Fix a mount time deadlock. Big thanks go to Mathias Kolehmainen for reporting the bug, providing debug output and testing the patches I sent him to get it working. The fix was to stop calling ntfs_attr_set() at mount time as that causes balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited() to be called which on systems with little memory actually tries to go and balance the dirty pages which tries to take the s_umount semaphore but because we are still in fill_super() across which the VFS holds s_umount for writing this results in a deadlock. We now do the dirty work by hand by submitting individual buffers. This has the annoying "feature" that mounting can take a few seconds if the journal is large as we have clear it all. One day someone should improve on this by deferring the journal clearing to a helper kernel thread so it can be done in the background but I don't have time for this at the moment and the current solution works fine so I am leaving it like this for now. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/ntfs/runlist.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'fs/ntfs/runlist.c') diff --git a/fs/ntfs/runlist.c b/fs/ntfs/runlist.c index 9afd72c..56a9a6d 100644 --- a/fs/ntfs/runlist.c +++ b/fs/ntfs/runlist.c @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ /** * runlist.c - NTFS runlist handling code. Part of the Linux-NTFS project. * - * Copyright (c) 2001-2005 Anton Altaparmakov + * Copyright (c) 2001-2007 Anton Altaparmakov * Copyright (c) 2002-2005 Richard Russon * * This program/include file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or @@ -1714,7 +1714,7 @@ extend_hole: sizeof(*rl)); /* Adjust the beginning of the tail if necessary. */ if (end > rl->vcn) { - s64 delta = end - rl->vcn; + delta = end - rl->vcn; rl->vcn = end; rl->length -= delta; /* Only adjust the lcn if it is real. */ -- cgit v1.1