Bob Peterson
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Before this patch, an IO error encountered in function gfs2_ail1_flush would cause a deadlock: because of the io error (and its resulting withdrawn state), buffers stopped being written to the journal. Buffers would remain on the ail1 list, so gfs2_ail1_start_one would return 1 to indicate dirty buffers were still on the ail1 list. However, when function gfs2_ail1_flush got a non-zero return code, it would goto restart to retry the writes, which meant it would never finish, and thus the infinite loop. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.