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From: Junxiao Bi <junxiao.bi@oracle.com>
To: ocfs2-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: dlm: fix recursive locking deadlock
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 14:03:17 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <566E5BA5.5030308@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <566EC6A8020000F90002219D@relay2.provo.novell.com>

On 12/14/2015 01:39 PM, Gang He wrote:
> Hello Junxiao,
> 
> From the initial description, the second lock_XYZ(PR) should be blocked, since DLM have a fair queue  mechanism, otherwise, it looks to bring a write lock starvation.
Should be blocked? No, that is a deadlock. I don't think this recursive
locking is common, so no need care starvation here.

> Second, this issue can be reproduced in old Linux kernels (e.g. 3.16.7-24)? there should not be any regression issue? 
Maybe just hard to reproduce, ocfs2 supports recursive locking.

> Finally, really do not like nested using lock, can we avoid this.
I didn't see a good reason why this should be avoided. Without this,
developer needs pay more attend to not involve recursive locking,
usually that is very hard before run a full test or a very detailed review.

Thanks,
Junxiao.
> 
> Thanks
> Gang
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-14  6:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-14  1:57 [Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH] ocfs2: dlm: fix recursive locking deadlock Junxiao Bi
2015-12-14  5:39 ` Gang He
2015-12-14  6:03   ` Junxiao Bi [this message]
2015-12-14  8:57     ` Eric Ren
2015-12-14 15:07       ` Junxiao Bi
2015-12-14 19:18     ` Mark Fasheh
2015-12-15  1:43       ` Junxiao Bi
2015-12-18 23:23         ` Mark Fasheh
2015-12-21  5:12           ` Junxiao Bi
2015-12-22 22:12             ` Mark Fasheh
2015-12-23  2:18               ` Junxiao Bi
2015-12-14  8:44 ` Eric Ren
2015-12-14  9:02   ` Junxiao Bi
2015-12-14 10:14     ` Eric Ren

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