Re: reiserfs locking (v2)

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 15:12 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> I don't think the deadlock can really happen, as we can't release the directory while
> we are reading it. Plus I guess we can't mmap a directory (someone correct me if
> I'm wrong).
> 

> Is there someone who could give me a hint here?

If its purely directories you can try and give directory inode locks a
different class.
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