From: Jinshan Xiong <[email protected]>

For a partial page write, it will have to issue a READ RPC firstly
to get a full uptodate page. If another page is already locked by
this thread it can easily cause deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Jinshan Xiong <[email protected]>
Intel-bug-id: https://jira.hpdd.intel.com/browse/LU-4873
Reviewed-on: http://review.whamcloud.com/9928
Reviewed-by: Bobi Jam <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Niu Yawei <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Drokin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: James Simmons <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c 
b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c
index d98c7ac..c14a1b6 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/llite/rw26.c
@@ -506,8 +506,9 @@ static int ll_write_begin(struct file *file, struct 
address_space *mapping,
        env = lcc->lcc_env;
        io  = lcc->lcc_io;
 
-       /* To avoid deadlock, try to lock page first. */
-       vmpage = grab_cache_page_nowait(mapping, index);
+       if (likely(to == PAGE_SIZE)) /* LU-4873 */
+               /* To avoid deadlock, try to lock page first. */
+               vmpage = grab_cache_page_nowait(mapping, index);
        if (unlikely(!vmpage || PageDirty(vmpage) || PageWriteback(vmpage))) {
                struct vvp_io *vio = vvp_env_io(env);
                struct cl_page_list *plist = &vio->u.write.vui_queue;
-- 
1.7.1

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