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2002 Sep 26
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->journal_info sharing
...ems in the kernel some mechanism is needed for proper sharing of the ->journal_info pointer in the task_struct. One journalled file system can indirectly call another during page fault in copy_from_user, quota file modification, or __alloc_pages()->balance_classzone()->shrink_cache()->vm_writeback() sequence. (Actually, I don't understand when prevents ext3 from re-entering itself in such a case.) Can we replace struct task_struct { ... void *journal_info; }; with struct fs_activation; struct fs_activation { struct super_block *super; struct fs_activation *parent; }; s...