Re: deadlocks caused by ext3/reiser dirty_inode calls duringdo_mmap_pgoff

[Chris Mason]

On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 14:57, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Chris Mason <mason@xxxxxxxx> 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.

Yup

> 
> >  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?

Agreed.

-chris

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