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From: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
To: Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com
Cc: michael@wil.cx, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: posix_lock_deadlocks() hang
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:09:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040914190911.GC16151@jeremy1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7A8F92187EF7A249BF847F1BF4903C040AFBEF@ausx2kmpc103.aus.amer.dell.com>

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 03:25:41PM -0500, Stuart_Hayes@Dell.com wrote:
> 
> I am seeing the kernel get stuck in an endless loop in 
> posix_locks_deadlock() checking for deadlocks.
> 
> It appears that samba (smbd) is getting both flocks and 
> posix locks.  Since flock_lock_file() isn't checking for 
> potential deadlocks before adding lock requests to the 
> blocked_list, we end up with (what appears to be) a circular 
> dependency between a posix lock and an flock in blocked_list.  

I'm not aware that we obtain any locks with flock. We only
use fcntl (POSIX) locks. I just grepped the code so I'm
quite sure :-).

Jeremy.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-14 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-13 20:25 posix_lock_deadlocks() hang Stuart_Hayes
2004-09-14  0:55 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-14 19:09 ` Jeremy Allison [this message]
2004-09-14 23:23   ` Stephen Rothwell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-14 14:43 Stuart_Hayes
2004-09-14 19:23 Stuart_Hayes
2004-09-14 19:28 ` Jeremy Allison
2004-09-14 19:30   ` Jeremy Allison
2004-09-17 16:21 Stuart_Hayes

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