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| author |   Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2010-12-22 18:57:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2010-12-22 18:57:02 +0100 |
| commit | 4b7bd364700d9ac8372eff48832062b936d0793b (patch) | |
| tree | 0dbf78c95456a0b02d07fcd473281f04a87e266d /fs/xfs/xfs_filestream.c | |
| parent | anon_inodes: fix wrong function name in comment (diff) | |
| parent | Linux 2.6.37-rc7 (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-4b7bd364700d9ac8372eff48832062b936d0793b.tar.xz linux-dev-4b7bd364700d9ac8372eff48832062b936d0793b.zip | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Conflicts:
MAINTAINERS
arch/arm/mach-omap2/pm24xx.c
drivers/scsi/bfa/bfa_fcpim.c
Needed to update to apply fixes for which the old branch was too
outdated.
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/xfs/xfs_filestream.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/xfs/xfs_filestream.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_filestream.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_filestream.c index 9b715dce5699..9124425b7f2f 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_filestream.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_filestream.c @@ -744,9 +744,15 @@ xfs_filestream_new_ag( * If the file's parent directory is known, take its iolock in exclusive * mode to prevent two sibling files from racing each other to migrate * themselves and their parent to different AGs. + * + * Note that we lock the parent directory iolock inside the child + * iolock here. That's fine as we never hold both parent and child + * iolock in any other place. This is different from the ilock, + * which requires locking of the child after the parent for namespace + * operations. */ if (pip) - xfs_ilock(pip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL); + xfs_ilock(pip, XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL | XFS_IOLOCK_PARENT); /* * A new AG needs to be found for the file. If the file's parent |