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Re: JFFS2 : Node info mutex fix suggestion.


 Gary Thomas wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 09:19, Alf Nilsson wrote:
> > When running a project with priority inheritance we noticed that all the
> > threads that passed though JFFS did not return to their original
> > priority. This due to the mutex count in the jffs2_inode_info was in
> > some cases 2 as lowest. We found that this depended on a call to
> > fs-ecos.c:jffs2_init_inode_info in fs-ecos.c:jffs2_new_inode. The 2nd
> > call in fs-ecos.c:jffs2_new_inode that increases the mutex occurs in
> > read.c:jffs2_do_new_inode.
> > This might not be the ultimate solution, but it seemed like the right
> > place to place the patch, but I'm open for suggestions.
>
> After consulting with David Woodhouse (the JFFS2 maintainer), I've
> committed the following change(s).  Please let us know if you have
> other problems.

Unfortunatly, applying this change undid my previous change (1.24, applied by
Andrew) and re-introduced the error it fixed. Can you please rectify this?

tk
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