From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Nicolai Stange <nicstange@gmail.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 9/9] debugfs: free debugfs_fsdata instances
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2017 10:19:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170418171938.GW3956@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1492528838.18845.3.camel@sipsolutions.net>
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 05:20:38PM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-04-18 at 08:17 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > > Again, no (S)RCU abuse here, just an ABBA deadlock.
> >
> > OK, please accept my apologies for failing to follow the thread.
>
> No worries - just wanted to clarify this in case I was missing
> something.
>
> > I nevertheless reiterate my advice to run at least some tests with
> > CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y. And yes, it would be good to upgrade lockdep
> > to find the above theoretical deadlock.
>
> Right. It won't matter for debugfs after this patchset, but it would
> indeed be nice - I failed in my attempt though :)
Hey, I was hoping! ;-)
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-18 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-23 14:54 deadlock in synchronize_srcu() in debugfs? Johannes Berg
2017-03-23 15:29 ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-24 8:56 ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-24 9:24 ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-24 17:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-03-24 18:51 ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-24 19:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-03-24 20:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-03-27 11:18 ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-23 15:36 ` Nicolai Stange
2017-03-23 15:47 ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-27 11:36 ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-30 7:32 ` Nicolai Stange
2017-03-30 7:55 ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-30 10:27 ` Nicolai Stange
2017-03-30 11:11 ` Johannes Berg
2017-03-31 9:03 ` Nicolai Stange
2017-03-31 9:44 ` Johannes Berg
2017-04-16 9:51 ` [RFC PATCH 0/9] debugfs: per-file removal protection Nicolai Stange
2017-04-16 9:51 ` [RFC PATCH 1/9] debugfs: add support for more elaborate ->d_fsdata Nicolai Stange
2017-04-16 9:51 ` [RFC PATCH 2/9] debugfs: implement per-file removal protection Nicolai Stange
2017-04-18 2:23 ` [lkp-robot] [debugfs] f3e7155d08: BUG:unable_to_handle_kernel kernel test robot
2017-04-23 18:37 ` Nicolai Stange
2017-04-24 6:36 ` Ye Xiaolong
2017-04-16 9:51 ` [RFC PATCH 3/9] debugfs: debugfs_real_fops(): drop __must_hold sparse annotation Nicolai Stange
2017-04-16 9:51 ` [RFC PATCH 4/9] debugfs: convert to debugfs_file_get() and -put() Nicolai Stange
2017-04-16 9:51 ` [RFC PATCH 5/9] IB/hfi1: " Nicolai Stange
2017-04-16 9:51 ` [RFC PATCH 6/9] debugfs: purge obsolete SRCU based removal protection Nicolai Stange
2017-04-16 9:51 ` [RFC PATCH 7/9] debugfs: call debugfs_real_fops() only after debugfs_file_get() Nicolai Stange
2017-04-16 9:51 ` [RFC PATCH 8/9] debugfs: defer debugfs_fsdata allocation to first usage Nicolai Stange
2017-04-18 9:36 ` Johannes Berg
2017-05-02 20:05 ` Nicolai Stange
2017-05-03 5:43 ` Johannes Berg
2017-04-16 9:51 ` [RFC PATCH 9/9] debugfs: free debugfs_fsdata instances Nicolai Stange
2017-04-17 16:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-18 9:39 ` Johannes Berg
2017-04-18 13:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-18 13:40 ` Johannes Berg
2017-04-18 15:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-04-18 15:20 ` Johannes Berg
2017-04-18 17:19 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2017-03-23 15:37 ` deadlock in synchronize_srcu() in debugfs? Paul E. McKenney
2017-03-23 15:46 ` Johannes Berg
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