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authorAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2008-02-10 01:20:05 -0500
committerTheodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>2008-02-10 01:20:05 -0500
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ext4: Fix circular locking dependency with migrate and rm.
In order to prevent a circular locking dependency when an unlink operation is racing with an ext4 migration, we delay taking i_data_sem until just before switch the inode format, and use i_mutex to prevent writes and truncates during the first part of the migration operation. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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