linux-kernel - Re: nfs accesses of FAT fs folders causes deadlock on lock

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Message-ID: <q2od4f60c3c1005041243t233194f7va29ffa8d0de7623f@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 4 May 2010 12:43:25 -0700
From:	Fredrick Prashanth John Berchmans <fredrickprashanth@...il.com>
To:	OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@...l.parknet.co.jp>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: nfs accesses of FAT fs folders causes deadlock on lock_super

> As far as I can see, nfsd is buffering the result of readdir, then do
> jobs (encode_fh, etc.) with it on other context of readdir.
>
> Aren't you missing a buffering of nfsd_buffered_readdir()?

Sorry I missed that.
My boxes run 2.6.27 kernel which does not have nfsd_buffered_readdir.

Thanks,
Fredrick
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