Re: [patch] fix up lock order reversal in writeback

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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:06:13PM -0500, Ted Ts'o wrote:

> This makes sense to me as well.
> 
> Acked-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> 
> So how do we want to send this patch to Linus?  It's a writeback
> change, so through some mm tree?  Or it lives in fs/fs-writeback.c
> (which I always thought was weird; why is it not in mm/?), so maybe
> through the VFS tree, even though I don't think Al would really care
> about this patch.

As in "don't really like", TBH.  I'll take it (with saner commit message
and comment in the source), but I really wonder if we are just asking for
more trouble down the road.

Specifically, I *really* want to see locking rules for that sucker
spelled out.  What can be held by caller?
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