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Before this patch, the freeze code in gfs2 specified GL_NOCACHE in several places. That's wrong because we always want to know the state of whether the file system is frozen. There was also a problem with freeze/thaw transitioning the glock from frozen (EX) to thawed (SH) because gfs2 will normally grant glocks in EX to processes that request it in SH mode, unless GL_EXACT is specified. Therefore, the freeze/thaw code, which tried to reacquire the glock in SH mode would get the glock in EX mode, and miss the transition from EX to SH. That made it think the thaw had completed normally, but since the glock was still cached in EX, other nodes could not freeze again. This patch removes the GL_NOCACHE flag to allow the freeze glock to be cached. It also adds the GL_EXACT flag so the glock is fully transitioned from EX to SH, thereby allowing future freeze operations. Signed-off-by: Bob Peterson <rpeterso@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.