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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: xfs vs. lockdep
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 12:58:58 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <452A8DE2.4000608@sandeen.net> (raw)

FC6 kernels are oopsing when lockdep & memory debugging are turned on,
looks like due to this code:

xfs_ireclaim(xfs_inode_t *ip)
{
   ...
        /*
         * Here we do a spurious inode lock in order to coordinate with
         * xfs_sync().  This is because xfs_sync() references the inodes
         * in the mount list without taking references on the corresponding
         * vnodes.  We make that OK here by ensuring that we wait until
         * the inode is unlocked in xfs_sync() before we go ahead and
         * free it.  We get both the regular lock and the io lock because
         * the xfs_sync() code may need to drop the regular one but will
         * still hold the io lock.
         */
        xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL | XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL);
...
        /*
         * Free all memory associated with the inode.
         */
        xfs_idestroy(ip);
}

So, lock & free.  This frees memory that lockdep is still pointing to,
and tries to use later.

Calling xfs_iunlock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL | XFS_IOLOCK_EXCL); just before
xfs_idestroy seems to solve it, but is this safe...?

-Eric

             reply	other threads:[~2006-10-09 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-09 17:58 Eric Sandeen [this message]
2006-10-09 23:36 ` xfs vs. lockdep Vlad Apostolov
2006-10-10  3:06   ` Eric Sandeen
2006-10-10  3:23     ` Vlad Apostolov
2006-10-10  0:47 ` David Chinner
2006-10-10  1:45   ` Timothy Shimmin
2006-10-10  2:21     ` Eric Sandeen
2006-10-10  4:55       ` Timothy Shimmin
2006-10-10  2:25   ` Eric Sandeen

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