> couple of years at least: a large write() to a mmap()ed file can
> deadlock for a similar reason, but on the inode write lock instead of
> the superblock lock.
Right. Look at the Oops report I generated at deadlock time and you'll see
that my kernel deadlocked in filemap_write_page() on the inode semaphore.
Andrea Arcangeli
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