When a dentry is unlinked, the unlinking node takes an EX on the dentry lock
before moving the dentry to the orphan directory. The other nodes, that all had
a PR on the same dentry lock, flag the corresponding inode as MAYBE_ORPHANED
during the downconvert. The inode is finally deleted when the
Next two patches are backport of orphan scan timer patches to ocfs2-1.4
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Hi,
here comes the next version of OCFS2 lockdep support. I've dropped patches
with fixes from the series since they were already merged.
As Joel suggested, I've simplified the main patch a bit so that we don't
have ifdefs around lock declarations and there are also a few other minor
Add lockdep support to OCFS2. The support also covers all of the cluster
locks except for open locks, journal locks, and local quotafile locks. These
are special because they are acquired for a node, not for a particular process
and lockdep cannot deal with such type of locking.
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