NFS: Fix a hang in the writeback path

Now that the inode scalability patches have been merged, it is no longer
safe to call igrab() under the inode->i_lock.
Now that we no longer call nfs_clear_request() until the nfs_page is
being freed, we know that we are always holding a reference to the
nfs_open_context, which again holds a reference to the path, and so
the inode cannot be freed until the last nfs_page has been removed
from the radix tree and freed.

We can therefore skip the igrab()/iput() altogether.

Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/nfs_page.h b/include/linux/nfs_page.h
index 8023e4e25133..91af2e49fa3a 100644
--- a/include/linux/nfs_page.h
+++ b/include/linux/nfs_page.h
@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@ extern	struct nfs_page *nfs_create_request(struct nfs_open_context *ctx,
                                             struct page *page,
                                             unsigned int offset,
                                             unsigned int count);
-extern  void nfs_clear_request(struct nfs_page *req);
 extern  void nfs_release_request(struct nfs_page *req);