On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: [...] > looking on the current locks in the system, we see that this kworker task > holds four locks, but none of them seems to be mutually held by another task, That was ofcourse a wrong assertion, as a lock can't be mutually held by two tasks... I wanted to say that from the general view of which locks are being held there's no obvious deadlock here, since none of the other locks holders relates to the block/scsi layers... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html