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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fs: dcache: Avoid livelock between d_alloc_parallel and __d_add
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 12:58:51PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> This patch resolves the livelock by not taking hlist_bl_lock in
> d_alloc_parallel if the sequence counter is odd, since any subsequent
> masked comparison with i_dir_seq will fail anyway.
>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>

Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com>

I wonder whether it makes sense to turn i_dir_seq into a seqcount_t,
which would give us the lockdep checking as well.

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