Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jun 2004 11:57:48 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: deadlocks caused by ext3/reiser dirty_inode calls during do_mmap_pgoff |
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Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> wrote: > > Hmmm, reiserfs_file_write does fault_in_pages_readable after the > transaction is started.
That nests down_read(mmap_sem) inside transaction start, vastly increasing the deadlock probability.
> I can at least make the window smaller for now > by moving that before the transaction is started.
Much smaller.
We need to decide what the ranking is and stick with it. I think that's "transaction start nests inside mmap_sem", agree?
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