vert thread can then do its downconvert. Without CANCELGRANT, there is nothing to clean up the cancellation state. The downconvert thread does not know to retry its operations. More importantly, the original lock may be blocking on the other node that is trying to cancel us. With neither able to make progress, the ast is never called and the cancellation state is never cleaned up that way. dlmglue is deadlocked. The OCFS2_LOCK_PENDING flag is introduced to remedy this window. It is set at the same time OCFS2_LOCK_BUSY is. Thus, the downconvert thread can check whether the lock is cancelable. If not, it just loops around to try again. Once ocfs2_dlm_lock() is called, the thread then clears OCFS2_LOCK_PENDING and wakes the downconvert thread. Now, if the downconvert thread finds the lock BUSY, it can safely try to cancel it. Whether the cancel works or not, the state will be properly set and the lock processing can continue. Signed-off-by: Joel Becker Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh Wl)x