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Message-Id: <20071114200136.009242000@chello.nl>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 21:01:36 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] mmap vs NFS
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Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>, Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>, Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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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.

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