On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:46:35AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote: > Currently ->iomap_begin() handler is called with entry lock held. If the > filesystem held any locks between ->iomap_begin() and ->iomap_end() > (such as ext4 which will want to hold transaction open), this would cause > lock inversion with the iomap_apply() from standard IO path which first > calls ->iomap_begin() and only then calls ->actor() callback which grabs > entry locks for DAX. I don't see the dax_iomap_actor() grabbing any entry locks for DAX? Is this an issue currently, or are you just trying to make the code consistent so we don't run into issues in the future? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
