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Revision e89bc612d61edbcefaeb6f2244f86c0f3ec89d23 authored by Christoph Hellwig on 07 December 2007, 03:07:53 UTC, committed by Lachlan McIlroy on 10 December 2007, 02:47:15 UTC
The current readdir implementation deadlocks on a btree buffers locks
because nfsd calls back into ->lookup from the filldir callback. The only
short-term fix for this is to revert to the old inefficient
double-buffering scheme.

SGI-PV: 973377
SGI-Modid: xfs-linux-melb:xfs-kern:30201a

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
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History
Tip revision: e89bc612d61edbcefaeb6f2244f86c0f3ec89d23 authored by Christoph Hellwig on 07 December 2007, 03:07:53 UTC
[XFS] revert to double-buffering readdir
Tip revision: e89bc61
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