Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Overlayfs never locks both upper and lower at the same time, which means > there's no AB-BA locking dependency. The lock orderings are: What you're talking about is not analogous to the situation I'm seeing with unionmount. You actually have three filesystems in overlayfs. The interaction between overlayfs-and-upperfs and overlayfs-and-lowerfs is the equivalent in unionmount terms to upperfs-and-lowerfs. This is where the lockdep issue lies. David -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
