Re: Deadlock problems

[Chris Mason]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 07:58, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Hi Andrew!
> 
>   I've found hard to fix problem causing deadlock - call path is
> generally following:
>   some operation -> quota code -> read/write quota -> vfs -> needs a page ->
> shrink caches -> free inodes -> free quota -> Ouch... (we need to acquire
> some lock which is already held by the quota code)
> 
Ugh, for some reason I thought we were avoiding this one in 2.6.  This
is why I made kinoded for the quota patches in 2.4.x

-chris


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