Re: [Cluster-devel] [GFS2 PATCH 0/7] Fix glock deadlocks with deleted inodes

2016-05-24 Thread Andreas Gruenbacher
On Tue, May 24, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Bob Peterson wrote: > I'm sending this to linux-fsdevel because one of the patches affects vfs. FWIW, except for Bob's new cover letter, this is a repost of the following patch set from May 13 -- which nobody has commented on so far: http://permalink.gmane.org/

[Cluster-devel] [GFS2 PATCH 0/7] Fix glock deadlocks with deleted inodes

2016-05-24 Thread Bob Peterson
I'm sending this to linux-fsdevel because one of the patches affects vfs. GFS2 has a long-standing deadlock related to the transition of dinodes from the Unlinked state to the Deleted state. The problem is that function delete_work_func in glock.c called gfs2_lookup_by_inum, which locks the inode