ocfs2: avoid blocking in ocfs2_mark_lockres_freeing() in downconvert thread
If we are dropping last inode reference from downconvert thread, we will end up calling ocfs2_mark_lockres_freeing() which can block if the lock we are freeing is queued thus creating an A-A deadlock. Luckily, since we are the downconvert thread, we can immediately dequeue the lock and thus avoid waiting in this case. Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Srinivas Eeda <srinivas.eeda@oracle.com> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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