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commit 6321e3ed2acf3ee9643cdd403e1c88605d7944ba
Author: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead.org>
Date:   Tue Feb 24 08:39:02 2009 -0500

    xfs: fix getbmap vs mmap deadlock
    
    xfs_getbmap (or rather the formatters called by it) copy out the getbmap
    structures under the ilock, which can deadlock against mmap.  This has
    been reported via bugzilla a while ago (#717) and has recently also
    shown up via lockdep.
    
    So allocate a temporary buffer to format the kernel getbmap structures
    into and then copy them out after dropping the locks.
    
    A little problem with this is that we limit the number of extents we
    can copy out by the maximum allocation size, but I see no real way
    around that.
    
    Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch at lst.de>
    Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen at sandeen.net>
    Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb at sgi.com>
    Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb at sgi.com>

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Summary of changes:
 fs/xfs/xfs_bmap.c |   52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
 1 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)


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