Re: [PATCH] Increase lockdep MAX_LOCK_DEPTH

Josef Sipek
2007-08-31T16:34:10Z

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 05:09:21PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-09-01 at 01:05 +1000, David Chinner wrote:
>
> > > Trouble is, we'd like to have a sane upper bound on the amount of held
> > > locks at any one time, obviously this is just wanting, because a lot of
> > > lock chains also depend on the number of online cpus...
> >
> > Sure - this is an obvious case where it is valid to take >30 locks at
> > once in a single thread. In fact, worst case here we are taking twice this
> > number of locks - we actually take 2 per inode (ilock and flock) so a
> > full 32 inode cluster free would take >60 locks in the middle of this
> > function and we should be busting this depth couter limit all the
> > time.
>
> I think this started because jeffpc couldn't boot without XFS busting
> lockdep :-)

It booted, but if I tried to build the kernel it would make lockdep blowup -
not very useful when you have your own code you'd like lockdep to check :)

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek.

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