From: Balaji Rao <balajirrao@gmail.com>
To: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Problem during implementing NFS support
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:41:10 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200807210041.10609.balajirrao@gmail.com> (raw)
Hi,
There's a problem in btrfs_readdir that tries to lock a root node with one
being held. This happens when NFS calls vfs_readdir function with a nfs
specific filldir function pointer. This filldir function, called with the
lock held calls btrfs_lookup, which tries to take the same lock. So, it keeps
waiting on lock_page indefinitely - a deadlock. This is not seen if the inode
is RAM in which case, lookup is not called.
Why can't we allow multiple readers to read a page ?
Please clarify.
Balaji Rao
next reply other threads:[~2008-07-20 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-20 19:11 Balaji Rao [this message]
2008-07-20 16:43 ` Problem during implementing NFS support David Woodhouse
2008-07-20 19:36 ` Balaji Rao
2008-07-20 20:08 ` David Woodhouse
2008-07-21 8:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-21 12:58 ` Chris Mason
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