Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 13:53:27 -0500
From: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
To: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>,
       Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
       Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-aio@kvack.org
Subject: Re: dio_get_page() lockdep complaints
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On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:35:04 -0800
Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> wrote:

> > Without getting into a huge patch, the best fix would just be
> > switching to try lock.  If the tail doesn't get packed, the world
> > doesn't end.
> 
> So, something like this?

Reviewed-by: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>

-chris
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