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| author | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2011-01-06 22:31:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk> | 2011-01-06 22:32:03 +0000 |
| commit | 4ec3eb13634529c0bc7466658d84d0bbe3244aea (patch) | |
| tree | b491daac2ccfc7b8ca88e171a43f66888463568a /fs/xfs/xfs_filestream.c | |
| parent | 24056f525051a9e186af28904b396320e18bf9a0 (diff) | |
| parent | 15095bb0fe779c0403091bda7adce5fb3bb9ca35 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'smp' into misc
Conflicts:
arch/arm/kernel/entry-armv.S
arch/arm/mm/ioremap.c
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 9b715dce569..9124425b7f2 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 |