On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 08:25:51PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote: > I'm hitting below lockdep warning (essentially same with > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1518666178.6070.25.camel@xxxxxxxxx ) as of commit > ba4dbdedd3edc279 ("Merge tag 'jfs-4.18' of git://github.com/kleikamp/linux-shaggy") > on linux.git . I think that this became visible by commit 93781325da6e07af > ("lockdep: fix fs_reclaim annotation") which went to 4.18-rc1. What should we do? > > [ 63.207781] > [ 63.471926] ====================================================== > [ 64.432812] WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected > [ 64.948272] 4.18.0-rc1+ #594 Tainted: G T > [ 65.512546] ------------------------------------------------------ > [ 65.519722] kswapd0/79 is trying to acquire lock: > [ 65.525792] 00000000f3581fab (sb_internal){.+.+}, at: xfs_trans_alloc+0xe0/0x120 [xfs] > [ 66.034497] > [ 66.034497] but task is already holding lock: > [ 66.661024] 00000000c7665973 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}, at: __fs_reclaim_acquire+0x0/0x30 > [ 67.554480] > [ 67.554480] which lock already depends on the new lock. > [ 67.554480] > [ 68.760085] > [ 68.760085] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: > [ 69.258520] > [ 69.258520] -> #1 (fs_reclaim){+.+.}: > [ 69.623516] > [ 69.623516] -> #0 (sb_internal){.+.+}: BTW, where's the stack trace that was recorded when this ordering was seen? Normally lockdep gives us all the relevant stack traces in a report, and without this trace to tell us where it saw this order, this bug report is mostly useless because we don't know what inversion it has recorded and is complaining about. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-xfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
