Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'll send a patch series with all of this; it doesn't seem terribly > urgent. Do you think there's a similar problem for AFS that Brian > noted with the generic patch? Probably not. To avoid deadlocking itself, afs uses a mutex to prevent writepages racing with truncate (vnode->validate_lock). commit ec0fa0b659144d9c68204d23f627b6a65fa53e50 afs: Fix deadlock between writeback and truncate the afs_setattr_edit_file() call that changes i_size and partially clears the pagecache is applied to the local inode before the mutex is dropped. David
