We are in the situation that we have to avoid recursive cluster locking,
but there is no way to check if a cluster lock has been taken by a precess
already.

Mostly, we can avoid recursive locking by writing code carefully.
However, we found that it's very hard to handle the routines that are
invoked directly by vfs code.  For instance:

  const struct inode_operations ocfs2_file_iops = {
      .permission     = ocfs2_permission,
      .get_acl        = ocfs2_iop_get_acl,
      .set_acl        = ocfs2_iop_set_acl,
  };

Both ocfs2_permission() and ocfs2_iop_get_acl() call ocfs2_inode_lock(PR):

  do_sys_open
   may_open
    inode_permission
     ocfs2_permission
      ocfs2_inode_lock() <=== first time
       generic_permission
        get_acl
         ocfs2_iop_get_acl
  	ocfs2_inode_lock() <=== recursive one

A deadlock will occur if a remote EX request comes in between two of
ocfs2_inode_lock().  Briefly describe how the deadlock is ...