Re: circular locking dependency detected panic in filldir when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 17:15 -0400, Joe Korty wrote:
> > I experienced a might_fault panic from NFS's use of filldir
> > in a 2.6.31 kernel compiled with CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y.
> > 
> > Looking at filldir, I see it is accessing user space with
> > __put_dir's (which are inatomic) and with one copy_to_user
> > (which is not inatomic).  It is the single copy_to_user
> > which is causing the might_fault panic.
> > 
> > It doesn't make any sense to be mixing use of inatomic
> > and non-inatomic services in filldir.  Either all should be
> > the inatomic version, or none should be.
> > 
> > The might_fault condition being reported by the panic looks
> > real to me, so I suspect the wrong answer is converting
> > everything to the inatomic version, since that just
> > suppresses the circular dependency check while leaving
> > the circular dependency in place.
> 
> Yes. This is known... Please see 
>    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/28578
> and
>    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.nfs/27406
> 
> I'm still hoping the VM folks can see fit to merge Peter's fix at some
> point...

Ouch, those patches at:

  http://programming.kicks-ass.net/kernel-patches/mmap-vs-nfs/

... are 2 years old. Higher intensity prodding needed to get this 
moving?

	Ingo