[Ocfs2-devel] Possible lock inversion in directory locking

[Joel Becker]

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 03:52:37PM -0800, Mark Fasheh wrote:
> It's not intentional, no. In fact, we didn't really use ip_alloc_sem for
> directories much until recently when Joel standardized it. As far as fixing
> this, I'd say it's best to re-order the locks properly.

	Agreed.

Joel

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