Re: [PATCH 0/13] read-only remount race fix v7

[Miklos Szeredi]

Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Miklos-san,
>
> (2011/10/13 16:10), Toshiyuki Okajima wrote:
>> Hi.
>> 
>> (2011/10/12 23:48), Miklos Szeredi wrote:
>>> Here's an update of the read-only remount race fixes.
>>>
>>> It should now fix the races after unlink.  I haven't been able to
>>> trigger the bad behavior with the test scripts provided by Toshiyuki
>>> Okajima.
>>>
>>> Toshiyuki-san, could you please test these patches too?
>> OK. I will test them with ext4. Please wait.
> I have tested your latest patch set by my reproducer with ext4.
>
> On my environment, this reproducer usually detects
>  "EXT4-fs (xxx): Couldn't remount RDWR because of unprocessed orphan inode list"
> message within 20 minutes when I use your previous patch set.
> However, when I use your latest patche set, this producer has not yet 
> detected the message for 2 days.
>
> So, I think your latest patch set fixes the problem that delayed deletion 
> can start when we remount a superblock read-only.
>
> Tested-by: Toshiyuki Okajima <toshi.okajima@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for testing.

Miklos
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