diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
index 818c4cf2de863e5450ac75ad300a1c78bfdbca60..8a70b2a17d6f410c3d61ee6e5845722058ed4588 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c
@@ -1078,7 +1078,7 @@ xfs_fs_write_inode(
 			error = 0;
 			goto out_unlock;
 		}
-		error = xfs_iflush(ip, 0);
+		error = xfs_iflush(ip, SYNC_TRYLOCK);
 	}
 
  out_unlock:
diff --git a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
index 6c10f1d2e3d3a8e4e094c5153d90b5c8ac60973f..594cd822d84de225755006321e5b97ebfe35cf70 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_sync.c
@@ -761,8 +761,10 @@ xfs_reclaim_inode(
 	struct xfs_perag	*pag,
 	int			sync_mode)
 {
-	int	error = 0;
+	int	error;
 
+restart:
+	error = 0;
 	xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
 	if (!xfs_iflock_nowait(ip)) {
 		if (!(sync_mode & SYNC_WAIT))
@@ -788,9 +790,31 @@ xfs_reclaim_inode(
 	if (xfs_inode_clean(ip))
 		goto reclaim;
 
-	/* Now we have an inode that needs flushing */
-	error = xfs_iflush(ip, sync_mode);
+	/*
+	 * Now we have an inode that needs flushing.
+	 *
+	 * We do a nonblocking flush here even if we are doing a SYNC_WAIT
+	 * reclaim as we can deadlock with inode cluster removal.
+	 * xfs_ifree_cluster() can lock the inode buffer before it locks the
+	 * ip->i_lock, and we are doing the exact opposite here. As a result,
+	 * doing a blocking xfs_itobp() to get the cluster buffer will result
+	 * in an ABBA deadlock with xfs_ifree_cluster().
+	 *
+	 * As xfs_ifree_cluser() must gather all inodes that are active in the
+	 * cache to mark them stale, if we hit this case we don't actually want
+	 * to do IO here - we want the inode marked stale so we can simply
+	 * reclaim it. Hence if we get an EAGAIN error on a SYNC_WAIT flush,
+	 * just unlock the inode, back off and try again. Hopefully the next
+	 * pass through will see the stale flag set on the inode.
+	 */
+	error = xfs_iflush(ip, SYNC_TRYLOCK | sync_mode);
 	if (sync_mode & SYNC_WAIT) {
+		if (error == EAGAIN) {
+			xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
+			/* backoff longer than in xfs_ifree_cluster */
+			delay(2);
+			goto restart;
+		}
 		xfs_iflock(ip);
 		goto reclaim;
 	}
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
index da871f5322368dffac20f1514a5966a45f26061e..742c8330994a82ff09bbc22f68695743751bc3eb 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -2835,7 +2835,7 @@ xfs_iflush(
 	 * Get the buffer containing the on-disk inode.
 	 */
 	error = xfs_itobp(mp, NULL, ip, &dip, &bp,
-				(flags & SYNC_WAIT) ? XBF_LOCK : XBF_TRYLOCK);
+				(flags & SYNC_TRYLOCK) ? XBF_TRYLOCK : XBF_LOCK);
 	if (error || !bp) {
 		xfs_ifunlock(ip);
 		return error;
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
index fd4f398bd6f1d8d01cca49046a65991d4d696d77..46cc40131d4a43c91ec5eb1d188c46e967c5193c 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item.c
@@ -760,11 +760,11 @@ xfs_inode_item_push(
 	 * Push the inode to it's backing buffer. This will not remove the
 	 * inode from the AIL - a further push will be required to trigger a
 	 * buffer push. However, this allows all the dirty inodes to be pushed
-	 * to the buffer before it is pushed to disk. THe buffer IO completion
-	 * will pull th einode from the AIL, mark it clean and unlock the flush
+	 * to the buffer before it is pushed to disk. The buffer IO completion
+	 * will pull the inode from the AIL, mark it clean and unlock the flush
 	 * lock.
 	 */
-	(void) xfs_iflush(ip, 0);
+	(void) xfs_iflush(ip, SYNC_TRYLOCK);
 	xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_SHARED);
 }