From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932793AbdKGIMV (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2017 03:12:21 -0500 Received: from merlin.infradead.org ([205.233.59.134]:54810 "EHLO merlin.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932774AbdKGIMS (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Nov 2017 03:12:18 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 09:11:43 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Byungchul Park Cc: Dmitry Vyukov , Al Viro , Jan Kara , syzbot , Andrew Morton , Johannes Weiner , jlayton@redhat.com, LKML , linux-mm@kvack.org, npiggin@gmail.com, rgoldwyn@suse.com, ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com, syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com, Ingo Molnar , kernel-team@lge.com Subject: Re: possible deadlock in generic_file_write_iter Message-ID: <20171107081143.GD3326@worktop> References: <94eb2c05f6a018dc21055d39c05b@google.com> <20171106032941.GR21978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20171106131544.GB4359@quack2.suse.cz> <20171106133304.GS21978@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> <20171106160107.GA20227@worktop.programming.kicks-ass.net> <20171107005442.GA1405@X58A-UD3R> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171107005442.GA1405@X58A-UD3R> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.22.1 (2013-10-16) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 09:54:42AM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote: > > The best I could come up with is something like the below; its not > > at all pretty and I could see people objecting; least of all myself for > > the __complete() thing, but I ran out of creative naming juice. > > Patches assigning a lock_class per gendisk were already applied in tip. > I believe that solves this. > > e319e1fbd9d42420ab6eec0bfd75eb9ad7ca63b1 > block, locking/lockdep: Assign a lock_class per gendisk used for > wait_for_completion() > > I think the following proposal makes kernel too hacky. Ah, I tough this was with those included...