On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, Al Viro wrote: > > readdir() is certainly a red herring. That's the one that lockdep reports, though. I still don't see why. Afaik, the only place where NFS gets an inode is nfs_fhget(), and that seems to do things correctly. > write(), OTOH, is quite real. And there we do i_mutex followed by > pagefaults. Ho humm.. > Could we please get a sane expalanation of the reasons why nfs mmap > wants i_mutex in the first place? Before we add yet another hook > from hell and complicate already overcomplicated area... Yeah, agreed. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
