Hi Jan, It seems the new mapping invalidate_lock causes a potential deadlock with fscache (see attached trace), though the system didn't actually deadlock. It's quite possible that it's actually a false positive, since chain #1 below is holding locks in two different filesystems. Note that this was with my fscache-iter-2 branch, but the I/O paths in use are mostly upstream and not much affected by that. This was found whilst running xfstests over afs with a cache, and I'd reached generic/346 when it tripped, so it seems to happen under very specific circumstances. Rerunning generic/346 by itself does reproduce the problem. I'm wondering if I'm going to need to offload netfs_rreq_do_write_to_cache(), which initiates the write to the cache, to a worker thread. David --- WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected 5.15.0-rc1-build2+ #292 Not tainted ------------------------------------------------------ holetest/65517 is trying to acquire lock: ffff88810c81d730 (mapping.invalidate_lock#3){.+.+}-{3:3}, at: filemap_fault+0x276/0x7a5 but task is already holding lock: ffff8881595b53e8 (&mm->mmap_lock#2){++++}-{3:3}, at: do_user_addr_fault+0x28d/0x59c which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #2 (&mm->mmap_lock#2){++++}-{3:3}: validate_chain+0x3c4/0x4a8 __lock_acquire+0x89d/0x949 lock_acquire+0x2dc/0x34b __might_fault+0x87/0xb1 strncpy_from_user+0x25/0x18c removexattr+0x7c/0xe5 __do_sys_fremovexattr+0x73/0x96 do_syscall_64+0x67/0x7a entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae -> #1 (sb_writers#10){.+.+}-{0:0}: validate_chain+0x3c4/0x4a8 __lock_acquire+0x89d/0x949 lock_acquire+0x2dc/0x34b cachefiles_write+0x2b3/0x4bb netfs_rreq_do_write_to_cache+0x3b5/0x432 netfs_readpage+0x2de/0x39d filemap_read_page+0x51/0x94 filemap_get_pages+0x26f/0x413 filemap_read+0x182/0x427 new_sync_read+0xf0/0x161 vfs_read+0x118/0x16e ksys_read+0xb8/0x12e do_syscall_64+0x67/0x7a entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae -> #0 (mapping.invalidate_lock#3){.+.+}-{3:3}: check_noncircular+0xe4/0x129 check_prev_add+0x16b/0x3a4 validate_chain+0x3c4/0x4a8 __lock_acquire+0x89d/0x949 lock_acquire+0x2dc/0x34b down_read+0x40/0x4a filemap_fault+0x276/0x7a5 __do_fault+0x96/0xbf do_fault+0x262/0x35a __handle_mm_fault+0x171/0x1b5 handle_mm_fault+0x12a/0x233 do_user_addr_fault+0x3d2/0x59c exc_page_fault+0x85/0xa5 asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30 other info that might help us debug this: Chain exists of: mapping.invalidate_lock#3 --> sb_writers#10 --> &mm->mmap_lock#2 Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(&mm->mmap_lock#2); lock(sb_writers#10); lock(&mm->mmap_lock#2); lock(mapping.invalidate_lock#3); *** DEADLOCK *** 1 lock held by holetest/65517: #0: ffff8881595b53e8 (&mm->mmap_lock#2){++++}-{3:3}, at: do_user_addr_fault+0x28d/0x59c stack backtrace: CPU: 0 PID: 65517 Comm: holetest Not tainted 5.15.0-rc1-build2+ #292 Hardware name: ASUS All Series/H97-PLUS, BIOS 2306 10/09/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x45/0x59 check_noncircular+0xe4/0x129 ? print_circular_bug+0x207/0x207 ? validate_chain+0x461/0x4a8 ? add_chain_block+0x88/0xd9 ? hlist_add_head_rcu+0x49/0x53 check_prev_add+0x16b/0x3a4 validate_chain+0x3c4/0x4a8 ? check_prev_add+0x3a4/0x3a4 ? mark_lock+0xa5/0x1c6 __lock_acquire+0x89d/0x949 lock_acquire+0x2dc/0x34b ? filemap_fault+0x276/0x7a5 ? rcu_read_unlock+0x59/0x59 ? add_to_page_cache_lru+0x13c/0x13c ? lock_is_held_type+0x7b/0xd3 down_read+0x40/0x4a ? filemap_fault+0x276/0x7a5 filemap_fault+0x276/0x7a5 ? pagecache_get_page+0x2dd/0x2dd ? __lock_acquire+0x8bc/0x949 ? pte_offset_kernel.isra.0+0x6d/0xc3 __do_fault+0x96/0xbf ? do_fault+0x124/0x35a do_fault+0x262/0x35a ? handle_pte_fault+0x1c1/0x20d __handle_mm_fault+0x171/0x1b5 ? handle_pte_fault+0x20d/0x20d ? __lock_release+0x151/0x254 ? mark_held_locks+0x1f/0x78 ? rcu_read_unlock+0x3a/0x59 handle_mm_fault+0x12a/0x233 do_user_addr_fault+0x3d2/0x59c ? pgtable_bad+0x70/0x70 ? rcu_read_lock_bh_held+0xab/0xab exc_page_fault+0x85/0xa5 ? asm_exc_page_fault+0x8/0x30 asm_exc_page_fault+0x1e/0x30 RIP: 0033:0x40192f Code: ff 48 89 c3 48 8b 05 50 28 00 00 48 85 ed 7e 23 31 d2 4b 8d 0c 2f eb 0a 0f 1f 00 48 8b 05 39 28 00 00 48 0f af c2 48 83 c2 01 <48> 89 1c 01 48 39 d5 7f e8 8b 0d f2 27 00 00 31 c0 85 c9 74 0e 8b RSP: 002b:00007f9931867eb0 EFLAGS: 00010202 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00007f9931868700 RCX: 00007f993206ac00 RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00007ffc13e06ee0 RBP: 0000000000000100 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007f9931868700 R10: 00007f99318689d0 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007ffc13e06ee0 R13: 0000000000000c00 R14: 00007ffc13e06e00 R15: 00007f993206a000