[2.6.29-rc5][BUG] swapon on vfat file gets stuck on inode lock

[Laurent GUERBY]

Hi,

With 2.6.29-rc5 (on an ARM platform but I don't think it's significant)
when I try to enable swap on a file which is on an USB mounted vfat
partition the swapon syscall gets stuck:

swapon        D c03780d4     0 22361      1
[<c0377db0>] (schedule+0x0/0x3ac) from [<c0378e50>] (__mutex_lock_slowpath+0x94/0xf4)
[<c0378dbc>] (__mutex_lock_slowpath+0x0/0xf4) from [<c0378c40>] (mutex_lock+0x20/0x24)
 r6:df49e808 r5:00000000 r4:00000000
[<c0378c20>] (mutex_lock+0x0/0x24) from [<c013bb2c>] (_fat_bmap+0x28/0x68)
[<c013bb04>] (_fat_bmap+0x0/0x68) from [<c00af910>] (bmap+0x2c/0x40)
 r6:0005ffff r5:00000000 r4:00000000
[<c00af8e4>] (bmap+0x0/0x40) from [<c0094b84>] (sys_swapon+0x630/0xcbc)
 r5:c0541510 r4:00300000
[<c0094554>] (sys_swapon+0x0/0xcbc) from [<c0029960>] (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c)

Looking around in the kernel sources it looks like the inode mutex is
taken both by mm/swapfile.c and by fs/fat/inode.c, the latter one since
this patch from november 2008:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=fa93ca18a8b0da4e26bd9491ad144cd14d22f8ec

When I use a loopback device on the very same file the swapon call works
so there's an easy workaround for this issue.

Sincerely,

Laurent
http://guerby.org/blog

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