From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>,
Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] change sb_writers to use percpu_rw_semaphore
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 19:31:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150717173117.GB30443@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150717012742.GV3902@dastard>
On 07/17, Dave Chinner wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 07:32:56PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> >
> > #ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
> > /*
> > * We want lockdep to tell us about possible deadlocks with freezing but
> > * it's it bit tricky to properly instrument it. Getting a freeze protection
> > * works as getting a read lock but there are subtle problems. XFS for example
> > * gets freeze protection on internal level twice in some cases, which is OK
>
> Sorry, I've missed something here - where is XFS nesting
> sb_start_intwrite() calls?
Heh ;) I too tried to understand thi but failed. I was not surprized,
I know nothing about fs/.
Dave, I didn't write this comment. Please look at acquire_freeze_lock().
If we can remove this logic - great! but this needs a separate change.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-17 17:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-13 21:25 [PATCH RFC 0/4] change sb_writers to use percpu_rw_semaphore Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-13 21:25 ` [PATCH 1/4] change get_super_thawed() to use sb_start/end_write() Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-14 10:49 ` Jan Kara
2015-07-14 13:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-13 21:25 ` [PATCH 2/4] introduce sb_unlock_frozen() Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-13 21:25 ` [PATCH 3/4] introduce sb_lockdep_release() Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-13 21:25 ` [PATCH 4/4] change sb_writers to use percpu_rw_semaphore Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-13 22:23 ` [PATCH RFC 0/4] " Dave Chinner
2015-07-13 22:42 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-13 23:14 ` Dave Chinner
2015-07-14 10:48 ` Jan Kara
2015-07-14 13:37 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-14 21:17 ` Dave Hansen
2015-07-14 21:22 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-14 21:41 ` Dave Hansen
2015-07-15 6:47 ` Jan Kara
2015-07-15 18:19 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-16 7:26 ` Jan Kara
2015-07-16 7:30 ` Dave Hansen
2015-07-16 8:55 ` Jan Kara
2015-07-16 17:32 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-17 1:27 ` Dave Chinner
2015-07-17 17:31 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2015-07-17 22:40 ` Dave Chinner
2015-07-20 8:26 ` Jan Kara
2015-07-22 21:09 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-07-20 16:23 ` Oleg Nesterov
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