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Subject: Re: nfs accesses of FAT fs folders causes deadlock on lock_super
From: Fredrick Prashanth John Berchmans <fredrickprashanth@gmail.com>
To: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
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> 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