On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Sat, 31 May 2014, Josh Boyer wrote: >> >> One of my machines got the lockdep report below when booting a kernel >> that contained these patches. > > I think this is just a lacking annotation. > > We do nest dentry d_lock locking, and in order to avoid ABBA deadlocks the > rule is that we lock things in topological order (parent dentry first). > lock_parent() is very careful about that, but doesn't actually tell > lockdep about it. > > This trivial oneliner should fix it. Thanks, I'll give it a spin later today. josh -- 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
