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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] mmap vs NFS
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:19:22 +0100
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Seems I forgot to mention this is an RFC :-)

On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 21:01 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Currently there is an AB-BA deadlock in NFS mmap.
> 
> nfs_file_mmap() can take i_mutex, while holding mmap_sem, whereas the regular
> locking order is the other way around.
> 
> This patch-set attempts to solve this issue.
>