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From: tglx@linutronix.de (Thomas Gleixner)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: BUG: spinlock recursion (sys_chdir, user_path_at, do_path_lookup ...)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 23:52:01 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1101122344500.2678@localhost6.localdomain6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110112210241.GM24920@pengutronix.de>

On Wed, 12 Jan 2011, Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote:
> > Reverting: fs: rcu-walk aware d_revalidate method
> > commit: 34286d6662308d82aed891852d04c7c3a2649b16
> I found that one, too, in the meantime.  Currently debugging that with
> tglx on irc.

The last finding is that parent and dentry in
nameidata_dentry_drop_rcu() are the same, which explains the lock
recursion nicely. 

@nick: Anything you want us to add to the debugging ?

@peterz: Why does lockdep ignore the lock recursion in that
	 spin_lock_nested() call?

Thanks,

	tglx

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-01-12 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-12 20:59 BUG: spinlock recursion (sys_chdir, user_path_at, do_path_lookup ...) Ramirez Luna, Omar
2011-01-12 21:02 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-01-12 21:16   ` Ramirez Luna, Omar
2011-01-12 22:52   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2011-01-13  8:09     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-01-13 11:01     ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-13 11:17       ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-01-13 11:21         ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-01-13 11:37           ` Peter Zijlstra
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-11 11:05 Uwe Kleine-König
2011-01-12  7:52 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-01-12 10:57   ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-01-12 12:03     ` Uwe Kleine-König
2011-01-12 12:35       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-12 12:48         ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2011-01-12 12:56           ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-01-18 16:59 ` Maciej Rutecki
2011-01-18 22:19   ` Nick Piggin
2011-01-19  7:43     ` Uwe Kleine-König

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