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From: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2016 23:47:15 +0000
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] add OCFS2_LOCK_IGNORE_BLOCKED arg_flags
 to ocfs2_cluster_lock() to prevent hang
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On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 09:46:49AM +0800, Junxiao Bi wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> We may fix this issue in another way, without recursive locking and
> without refactoring. We can check before asking for the second locking,
> if lock is already hold, then skip the second locking, do you agree
> fixing like this?

Hey Junxiao,

What is to prevent the second lock from being dropped while in the
middle of the operation?

Joel

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