Re: [BUG?] [Ext4] INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage

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On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 12:39:49AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> 
> I think it's no problem. 
> 
> That's because migration always holds lock_page on the file page.
> So the page couldn't remove from radix. 

It may be "ok" in that it won't cause a race, but it still leaves an
unsightly warning if LOCKDEP is enabled, and LOCKDEP warnings will
cause /proc_lock_stat to be disabled.  So I think it still needs to be
fixed by adding rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() to
migrate_page_move_mapping().

      	 					     - Ted
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