Re: False lockdep completion splats with loop device

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On Fri, Dec 08, 2017 at 10:59:22AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:

> > 3. if multi nested looped fs is important (not really) then loop/nbd will
> >     need to know if its file is on a looped fs and propagate nesting level
> >     to ext4
> 
> This functionality is definitely used and needs to be supported by
> the annotations.

FWIW, in addition to loop, there's md.  So should loop need to know if its
backing file lives on a filesystem that does, for example, have an extrnal
journal sitting on RAID1 with one of the components hosted in a file on
some other fs, brought into the array via another loop device?

Oh, and to make life even more fun, backing file can be flipped under
configured /dev/loop.  IOW, those nesting depths are not static at all.
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