Re: [RFC] Badness in __mutex_unlock_slowpath with XFS stress tests

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 01:24:38PM +0530, Suzuki wrote:
> 
> Missed out linux-aio & linux-fs-devel lists. Forwarding.
> 
> Comments ?

I've seen this too.  The problem is that __generic_file_aio_read can return
with or without the i_mutex locked in the direct I/O case for filesystems
that set DIO_OWN_LOCKING.  It's a nasty one and I haven't found a better solution
than copying lots of code from filemap.c into xfs.

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