From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 9483] circular locking dependency detected
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 22:25:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071204212518.GA10020@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071130073446.GA7864@skywalker>
* Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> =======================================================
> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> 2.6.24-rc3 #6
> -------------------------------------------------------
> bash/2294 is trying to acquire lock:
> (&journal->j_list_lock){--..}, at: [<c01eee2f>] journal_try_to_free_buffers+0x76/0x10c
>
> but task is already holding lock:
> (inode_lock){--..}, at: [<c01864b6>] drop_pagecache+0x48/0xd8
>
> which lock already depends on the new lock.
Andrew, drop_pagecache() is root-only and it has some known deadlock,
right?
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-30 7:34 circular locking dependency detected Aneesh Kumar K.V
2007-12-04 21:25 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2007-12-04 21:35 ` [Bug 9483] " Andrew Morton
2007-12-04 21:39 ` Ingo Molnar
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