From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] Fix ext4 deadlock when running xfstests/269
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 11:13:57 +0100
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Cc: Akira Fujita <a-fujita@rs.jp.nec.com>, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
To: Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
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  Hello,

  these three patches fix a deadlock Akira-san has been observing for
some time when running xfstest's test 269 for long enough. The first two
patches are preparatory and the third patch fixes the real problem -
calling ext4_should_retry_alloc() from a wrong locking context.

								Honza