xfs: fix getbmap vs mmap deadlock
xfs_getbmap (or rather the formatters called by it) copy out the getbmap
structures under the ilock, which can deadlock against mmap. This has
been reported via bugzilla a while ago (#717) and has recently also
shown up via lockdep.
So allocate a temporary buffer to format the kernel getbmap structures
into and then copy them out after dropping the locks.
A little problem with this is that we limit the number of extents we
can copy out by the maximum allocation size, but I see no real way
around that.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Reviewed-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Blyakher <felixb@sgi.com>
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