Re: Review: prevent deadlock via async iput from xfs_iunpin

[Nathan Scott <nscott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 15:06 +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> In fixing the recent problems with inode use-after-free in
> xfs_iunpin, we introduced a new deadlock. When iput() is called, it
> can trigger new transactions on the inode if we are dropping the
> final reference. This is a bad thing to do from a xfslogd because it
> is theonly thread that can move the tail of the log forwards.

*nod*, sounds reasonable & your fix looks good to me, Dave.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan