On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 02:05:18PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> Using my testsuite, I see the attached moan from lockdep. Unfortunately, it
> doesn't cause the testsuite to actually fail, so I'm going to have to manually
> try and isolate the failing test.
>
> David
>
> =============================================
> [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> 3.18.0-rc2-fsdevel+ #910 Tainted: G W
> ---------------------------------------------
> run/2642 is trying to acquire lock:
> (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81203d81>] ovl_cleanup_whiteouts+0x29/0xb4
>
> but task is already holding lock:
> (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#10/1){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8113abff>] lock_rename+0xb7/0xd7
Uh-oh. We changed nesting late in the cycle and I didn't retest with lockdep.
And it's actually harmless, but AFAICS needs another level of nesting between
I_MUTEX_CHILD and I_MUTEX_NORMAL.
Will do a patch.
Thanks,
Miklos
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