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    NFS: swap IO handling is slightly different for O_DIRECT IO · 64158668
    NeilBrown authored
    1/ Taking the i_rwsem for swap IO triggers lockdep warnings regarding
       possible deadlocks with "fs_reclaim".  These deadlocks could, I believe,
       eventuate if a buffered read on the swapfile was attempted.
    
       We don't need coherence with the page cache for a swap file, and
       buffered writes are forbidden anyway.  There is no other need for
       i_rwsem during direct IO.  So never take it for swap_rw()
    
    2/ generic_write_checks() explicitly forbids writes to swap, and
       performs checks that are not needed for swap.  So bypass it
       for swap_rw().
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTrond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@hammerspace.com>
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