Hello,
Documentation/filesystems/Locking states that all super operations may
block, but __set_page_dirty_buffers() calls
__mark_inode_dirty()->s_op->dirty_inode()
under mapping->private_lock spin lock. This seems strange, because file
systems' ->dirty_inode() assume that they are allowed to block. For
example, ext3_dirty_inode() allocates memory in
ext3_journal_start()->journal_start()->new_handle()->...
Nikita.
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