Thanx Andre
FYI: How this got broken:
http://lwn.net/Articles/141982/
Makes it easy for OCFS2, breaks YAFFS.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andre Renaud [mailto:andre@bluewatersys.com]
> Sent: Monday, 14 November 2005 3:24 p.m.
> To: Charles Manning
> Cc: yaffs@stoneboat.aleph1.co.uk; manningc2@actrix.gen.nz
> Subject: Re: [Yaffs] Kernel panic in clear_inode when using
> yaffs as rootfs
>
> Charles Manning wrote:
> > Is this only with yaffs as root or will stress also break non-root?
>
> I think I found it, according to fs/inode.c:1039
> if (op->delete_inode) {
> void (*delete)(struct inode *) = op->delete_inode;
> if (!is_bad_inode(inode))
> DQUOT_INIT(inode);
> /* Filesystems implementing their own
> * s_op->delete_inode are required to call
> * truncate_inode_pages and clear_inode()
> * internally */
> delete(inode);
> } else {
> truncate_inode_pages(&inode->i_data, 0);
> clear_inode(inode);
> }
>
> However, yaffs_delete_inode does not call truncate_inode_pages.
>
> The attached patch seems to resolve it.
>
> Thanks,
> Andre
>
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