linux-kernel - Re: possible deadlock in generic_file_write

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Date:   Mon, 6 Nov 2017 15:45:20 -0800
From:   Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
        syzbot 
        <bot+f99f3a0db9007f4f4e32db54229a240c4fe57c15@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, jlayton@...hat.com,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        npiggin@...il.com, rgoldwyn@...e.com, ross.zwisler@...ux.intel.com,
        syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: possible deadlock in generic_file_write_iter

On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 09:36:25AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> How about complete_nodep() as name?  Otherwise this looks ok to me - not
> pretty, but not _that_ horrible either..

I read that as node-p, not no-dep.  complete_nocheck()?