From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from relay.sgi.com (relay2.corp.sgi.com [137.38.102.29]) by oss.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05DD37F5E for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 22:45:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.176.25]) by relay2.corp.sgi.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06BC330404E for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 20:45:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heian.cn.fujitsu.com (cn.fujitsu.com [59.151.112.132]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id vn1HzHku19AcGkWu for ; Wed, 28 May 2014 20:45:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5386AABD.5070708@cn.fujitsu.com> Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 11:34:21 +0800 From: Gu Zheng MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: xfs: possible deadlock warning References: <538571D4.70904@cn.fujitsu.com> <20140528060050.GK8554@dastard> In-Reply-To: <20140528060050.GK8554@dastard> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Dave Chinner Cc: linux-kernel , xfs@oss.sgi.com Hi Dave, On 05/28/2014 02:00 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 01:19:16PM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote: >> Hi all, >> When running the latest Linus' tree, the following possible deadlock warning occurs. > > false positive. There isn't a deadlock between inode locks on > different filesystems. i.e. there is no dependency between shmem > inodes and xfs inodes, nor on their security contexts. Nor can you > take a page fault on a directory inode, which is the XFS inode lock > class it's complaining about. If it's really a noisy, can we avoid this? Thanks, Gu > > Fundamentally, the problem here is shmem instantiating a new inode > with the mmap_sem held. That's just plain wrong... Agree, it's better to prepare the file before going into the protection region. > > > Cheers, > > Dave. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs