On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:01:00PM -0600, Alex Elder wrote:
> At the end of xfs_reclaim_inode(), the inode is locked in order to
> we wait for a possible concurrent lookup to complete before the
> inode is freed. This synchronization step was taking both the ILOCK
> and the IOLOCK, but the latter was causing lockdep to produce
> reports of the possibility of deadlock.
>
> It turns out that there's no need to acquire the IOLOCK at this
> point anyway. It may have been required in some earlier version of
> the code, but there should be no need to take the IOLOCK in
> xfs_iget(), so there's no (longer) any need to get it here for
> synchronization. Add an assertion in xfs_iget() as a reminder
> of this assumption.
>
> Dave Chinner diagnosed this on IRC, and Christoph Hellwig suggested
> no longer including the IOLOCK. I just put together the patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Elder <elder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Looks good.
Reviewed-by: Ben Myers <bpm@xxxxxxx>
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