XFS: thaw operation hungs if caches are dropped while FS is freezed

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Deadlock between thaw task and memory reclaim (shrinker) task when caches are dropped
  • Filesystem is XFS

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • XFS

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