On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 11:04:22AM +1100, Nathan Scott wrote:
> The bug# for the write deadlock I mentioned earlier -- 925836.

I finally found some time to look at it, and this fix is almost trivial.

XFS doesn't need the i_alloc_sem at all, so we should avoid taking it in
direct-io.c completely.  As a side-effect it makes the code a little bit
simpler even.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>