There is a false positive lockdep warning in how the xfs code handle filesystem freeze: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(sb_internal); lock(fs_reclaim); lock(sb_internal); lock(fs_reclaim); *** DEADLOCK *** This patch series works around this problem by adding a PF_MEMALLOC_NOLOCKDEP flag and set during filesystem freeze to avoid the lockdep splat. Waiman Long (2): sched: Add PF_MEMALLOC_NOLOCKDEP flag xfs: Fix false positive lockdep warning with sb_internal & fs_reclaim fs/xfs/xfs_log.c | 9 +++++++++ fs/xfs/xfs_trans.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- include/linux/sched.h | 7 +++++++ include/linux/sched/mm.h | 15 ++++++++++----- 4 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) -- 2.18.1