Re: [PATCH 0/3] mmap vs NFS

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Wed Nov 14 2007 - 16:27:42 EST



On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 21:01 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Currently there is an AB-BA deadlock in NFS mmap.
>
> nfs_file_mmap() can take i_mutex, while holding mmap_sem, whereas the regular
> locking order is the other way around.
>
> This patch-set attempts to solve this issue.

Looks good from the NFS point of view.

Acked-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@xxxxxxxxxx>

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