Re: [PATCH 0/3] mmap vs NFS

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Nov 14 2007 - 15:20:30 EST



Seems I forgot to mention this is an RFC :-)

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.
>

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