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From: Thomas Neumann <tneumann@users.sourceforge.net>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: deadlocks with fallocate
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 01:16:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910150116.27421.tneumann@users.sourceforge.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091014150951.GA13123@infradead.org>

> And this thread is inside the fallocate handler.
> 
> Can you try if the hack below makes the problem go away?
> 
> +	current->flags |= PF_FSTRANS;

that seems to do the trick. I will test it some more, but so far it has 
already survived a workload that usually triggered the deadlock quite 
reliably.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-14 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-08  6:59 deadlocks with fallocate Thomas Neumann
2009-10-14 15:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-10-14 23:16   ` Thomas Neumann [this message]
2009-10-15  5:58   ` Thomas Neumann
2009-10-15 12:13     ` Christoph Hellwig

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