Re: [PATCH] deadlock when swapping to FAT

[OGAWA Hirofumi]

Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Note that the same race condition is happening in all the other 
> filesystems. Maybe move that i_alloc_sem up to ->bmap method caller?

It can be. However, I guess locking strategy would be per
filesystems. Because the fs may be using i_alloc_sem in get_block
already.

Thanks.
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OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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