Re: VFS deadlock ?

[Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 02:18:15PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
 > >
 > > here we go...
 > >
 > > WARNING: at fs/namei.c:2335 lock_rename+0x156/0x160()
 > > p1=irda p2=irda
 > 
 > Ok, good. I ssupect it's /proc or /sys, we do have that entry there.
 > 
 > But in fact I suspect we do want the parent name after all, because I
 > think we have multiple "irda" directories. There's the one in
 > /proc/net/ (added by net/irda/irproc.c), and there's a sysctl  CTL_DIR
 > "irda" directory (kernel/sysctl_binary.c). And there might even be a
 > few other ones in /sys too, thanks to the ldisc called "irda" etc.
 > 
 > I don't see where the shared inode comes from, but I suspect that
 > would be easier to guess if we actually see which particular case it
 > ends up being..

it's not just irda fwiw..

p1=rpc p2=rpc p1parent=net p2parent=net

not sure why the printk with Al's last debugging info didn't print out..
Investigating..

	Dave