Re: splice vs execve lockdep trace.

Dave Jones
2013-07-16T03:29:17Z

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 08:25:14PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> And looking more at that, I'm actually starting to think this is an
> XFS locking problem. XFS really should not call back to splice while
> holding the inode lock.
>
> But that XFS code doesn't seem new either. Is XFS a new thing for you
> to test with?

I started pounding on it fairly recently and have shook out a number
of bugs (now fixed) since I started, so relatively new, but on the order of 'months' now.

Dave