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The netfs_inode::wb_lock mutex is used to prevent multiple simultaneous writebacks from fighting each other (a writeback thread will write multiple discontiguous regions within the same request). The mutex, however, only serialises the issuing of subrequests; it doesn't serialise the collection of results, and, in particular, the updating of file size information and fscache populatedness data. Unfortunately, the mutex cannot be held around the entire process as it has to be unlocked in the same thread in which it is locked - and we don't want to hold up the allocator whilst we complete the writeback. Fix this by replacing the mutex with a bit flag and a list of lock waiters so that the lock can be dropped in the collector thread after collection is complete. Link: https://sashiko.dev/#/patchset/20260608145432.681865-1-dhowells%40redhat.com Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260625140640.3116900-12-dhowells@redhat.com cc: Paulo Alcantara <pc@manguebit.org> cc: netfs@lists.linux.dev cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>