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| author | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2010-12-13 09:29:52 +0100 |
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| committer | Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> | 2010-12-13 09:29:52 +0100 |
| commit | 354d14b3f53cc749c5d26d4ba7280d1e931d6bc4 (patch) | |
| tree | 59b597e44902d8db8bde7deac1e7e707327c6fe6 /fs/xfs/xfs_filestream.c | |
| parent | 5144c534d16529bc469396211131e8935589f833 (diff) | |
| parent | 5b84ba26a9672e615897234fa5efd3eea2d6b295 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'topic/workq-update' into topic/misc
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 9b715dce5699..9124425b7f2f 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 |