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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Gu Zheng <guz.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: xfs: possible deadlock warning
Date: Wed, 28 May 2014 16:00:50 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140528060050.GK8554@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <538571D4.70904@cn.fujitsu.com>

On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 01:19:16PM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote:
> Hi all,
> When running the latest Linus' tree, the following possible deadlock warning occurs.

false positive. There isn't a deadlock between inode locks on
different filesystems. i.e. there is no dependency between shmem
inodes and xfs inodes, nor on their security contexts.  Nor can you
take a page fault on a directory inode, which is the XFS inode lock
class it's complaining about.

Fundamentally, the problem here is shmem instantiating a new inode
with the mmap_sem held. That's just plain wrong...


Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-28  6:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-28  5:19 xfs: possible deadlock warning Gu Zheng
2014-05-28  6:00 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2014-05-29  3:34   ` Gu Zheng
2014-05-29  7:49     ` Dave Chinner

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