On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 09:48:22 -0800
Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> wrote:

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> 
> >> So reiser and NFS need to be fixed.  No?
> > 
> > Actually, it is rather mmap() needs to be fixed.
> 
> Sure, I'm willing to have that demonstrated.  My point was that DIO
> getting the mmap_sem inside i_mutex is currently correct.
> 
> reiserfs, though, seems to be out on a more precarious limb ;).

reiserfs is doing tail packing during the file_release call, which has
lots of advantages for removing complexity in file_write.

Without getting into a huge patch, the best fix would just be switching
to try lock.  If the tail doesn't get packed, the world doesn't end.

-chris
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