The patch titled Subject: ocfs2/dlm: unlock lockres spinlock before dlm_lockres_put has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is ocfs2-dlm-unlock-lockres-spinlock-before-dlm_lockres_put.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/ocfs2-dlm-unlock-lockres-spinlock-before-dlm_lockres_put.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/ocfs2-dlm-unlock-lockres-spinlock-before-dlm_lockres_put.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: ocfs2/dlm: unlock lockres spinlock before dlm_lockres_put dlm_lockres_put will call dlm_lockres_release if it is the last reference, and then it may call dlm_print_one_lock_resource and take lockres spinlock. So unlock lockres spinlock before dlm_lockres_put to avoid deadlock. Signed-off-by: Joseph Qi <joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@xxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c | 3 ++- fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c~ocfs2-dlm-unlock-lockres-spinlock-before-dlm_lockres_put fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c~ocfs2-dlm-unlock-lockres-spinlock-before-dlm_lockres_put +++ a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c @@ -1658,12 +1658,13 @@ send_response: if (ret < 0) { mlog(ML_ERROR, "failed to dispatch assert master work\n"); response = DLM_MASTER_RESP_ERROR; + spin_unlock(&res->spinlock); dlm_lockres_put(res); } else { dispatched = 1; __dlm_lockres_grab_inflight_worker(dlm, res); + spin_unlock(&res->spinlock); } - spin_unlock(&res->spinlock); } else { if (res) dlm_lockres_put(res); diff -puN fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c~ocfs2-dlm-unlock-lockres-spinlock-before-dlm_lockres_put fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c --- a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c~ocfs2-dlm-unlock-lockres-spinlock-before-dlm_lockres_put +++ a/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c @@ -1723,8 +1723,8 @@ int dlm_master_requery_handler(struct o2 } else { dispatched = 1; __dlm_lockres_grab_inflight_worker(dlm, res); + spin_unlock(&res->spinlock); } - spin_unlock(&res->spinlock); } else { /* put.. incase we are not the master */ spin_unlock(&res->spinlock); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joseph.qi@xxxxxxxxxx are ocfs2-dlm-unlock-lockres-spinlock-before-dlm_lockres_put.patch ocfs2-improve-performance-for-localalloc.patch ocfs2-do-not-include-dio-entry-in-case-of-orphan-scan.patch ocfs2-only-take-lock-if-dio-entry-when-recover-orphans.patch ocfs2-fix-race-between-mount-and-delete-node-cluster.patch ocfs2-dlm-fix-race-between-convert-and-recovery.patch ocfs2-dlm-fix-race-between-convert-and-recovery-v2.patch ocfs2-dlm-fix-race-between-convert-and-recovery-v3.patch ocfs2-dlm-fix-bug-in-dlm_move_lockres_to_recovery_list.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html