From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Ben Myers <bpm@sgi.com>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: splice vs execve lockdep trace.
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 23:28:41 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130716032841.GB1578@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxiGXht8+Dox=C2ezYYf1yMaLAzMYr40j=+peP8j5Ha6w@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 08:25:14PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> And looking more at that, I'm actually starting to think this is an
> XFS locking problem. XFS really should not call back to splice while
> holding the inode lock.
>
> But that XFS code doesn't seem new either. Is XFS a new thing for you
> to test with?
I started pounding on it fairly recently and have shook out a number
of bugs (now fixed) since I started, so relatively new, but on the order of 'months' now.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-16 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-16 1:53 splice vs execve lockdep trace Dave Jones
2013-07-16 2:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-16 2:38 ` Dave Jones
2013-07-16 3:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-16 3:28 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2013-07-16 5:31 ` Al Viro
2013-07-16 6:03 ` Dave Chinner
2013-07-16 6:16 ` Al Viro
2013-07-16 6:41 ` Dave Chinner
2013-07-16 6:50 ` Dave Chinner
2013-07-16 19:33 ` Ben Myers
2013-07-16 20:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-16 20:43 ` Dave Chinner
2013-07-16 21:02 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-17 4:06 ` Dave Chinner
2013-07-17 4:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-17 5:51 ` Dave Chinner
2013-07-17 16:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-17 23:40 ` Ben Myers
2013-07-18 0:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2013-07-18 3:42 ` Dave Chinner
2013-07-18 21:16 ` Ben Myers
2013-07-18 22:21 ` Ben Myers
2013-07-18 22:49 ` Dave Chinner
2013-07-18 3:17 ` Dave Chinner
2013-07-16 13:59 ` Vince Weaver
2013-07-16 15:02 ` Dave Jones
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20130716032841.GB1578@redhat.com \
--to=davej@redhat.com \
--cc=bpm@sgi.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=oleg@redhat.com \
--cc=peterz@infradead.org \
--cc=torvalds@linux-foundation.org \
--cc=viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk \
--cc=xfs@oss.sgi.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).