[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 1/7] quota: Refactor dquot_transfer code so that OCFS2 can pass in its references

[Joel Becker]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 09:57:57PM +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> Currently, __dquot_transfer() acquires its own references of dquot structures
> that will be put into inode. But for OCFS2, this creates a lock inversion
> between dq_lock (waited on in dqget) and transaction start (started in
> ocfs2_setattr). Currently, deadlock is impossible because dq_lock is acquired
> only during dquot_acquire and dquot_release and we already hold a reference to
> dquot structures in ocfs2_setattr so neither of these functions can be called
> while we call dquot_transfer. But this is rather subtle and it is hard to teach
> lockdep about it. So provide __dquot_transfer function that can be passed dquot
> references directly. OCFS2 can then pass acquired dquot references directly to
> __dquot_transfer with proper locking.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack at suse.cz>

	I like this patch.  Very clean solution.

Joel

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