Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:30:20 -0700 (PDT) | From | Hugh Dickins <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] mm: swap: Unlock swapfile inode mutex before closing file on bad swapfiles |
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On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Mel Gorman wrote:
> This patch releases the mutex if its held before calling filep_close() > so swapon fails as expected without deadlock when the swapfile is backed > by NFS. If accepted for 2.6.39, it should also be considered a -stable > candidate for 2.6.38 and 2.6.37. > > Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Thank you!
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