Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Fix up the NFS mmap code

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Al Viro wrote:
> 
> readdir() is certainly a red herring.

That's the one that lockdep reports, though. I still don't see why. Afaik, 
the only place where NFS gets an inode is nfs_fhget(), and that seems to 
do things correctly.

> write(), OTOH, is quite real. And there we do i_mutex followed by 
> pagefaults.

Ho humm.. 

> Could we please get a sane expalanation of the reasons why nfs mmap
> wants i_mutex in the first place?  Before we add yet another hook
> from hell and complicate already overcomplicated area...

Yeah, agreed.

		Linus
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