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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au, eike-kernel@sf-tec.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, aia21@cantab.net,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG?] possible recursive locking detected
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:46:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060727094617.GA5955@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1153992484.21849.36.camel@imp.csi.cam.ac.uk>


* Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> An example is the potential deadlock in generic buffered file write 
> where we fault in a page via fault_in_pages_readable() but there is 
> nothing to guarantee that page will not go away between us doing this 
> and us using the page.

isnt this solved by:

 commit 6527c2bdf1f833cc18e8f42bd97973d583e4aa83
 Author: Vladimir V. Saveliev <vs@namesys.com>
 Date:   Tue Jun 27 02:53:57 2006 -0700

     [PATCH] generic_file_buffered_write(): deadlock on vectored write

?

if not, do you have any description of the problem or a link to previous 
discussion[s] outlining the problem? To me it appears this is a kernel 
bug where we simply dropped the ball to fix it. I personally dont find 
it acceptable to have deadlocks in the kernel, where all that is needed 
to trigger it is "high i/o loads", no matter how hard it is to fix the 
deadlock.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-27  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-26 16:05 [BUG?] possible recursive locking detected Rolf Eike Beer
2006-07-27  5:53 ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-27  6:51   ` Nick Piggin
2006-07-27  7:15     ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-07-27  7:38       ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-27  8:19         ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-07-27  8:53           ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-27  9:28             ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-07-27  9:46               ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-07-27 14:31                 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-07-27 14:45                   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-07-27 18:04                     ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-27  9:18           ` Nick Piggin
2006-07-27  9:35             ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-07-27 10:02               ` Nick Piggin
2006-07-27 12:30                 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2006-07-27  7:24     ` Andrew Morton
2006-07-27  7:29   ` Arjan van de Ven

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