The patch titled lockdep: annotate nfsd4 recover code has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is lockdep-annotate-nfsd4-recover-code.patch See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: lockdep: annotate nfsd4 recover code From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> > ============================================= > [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] > 2.6.18-1.2724.lockdepPAE #1 > --------------------------------------------- > nfsd/6884 is trying to acquire lock: > (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c04811e5>] vfs_rmdir+0x73/0xf4 > > but task is already holding lock: > (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<f8dfa621>] > nfsd4_clear_clid_dir+0x1f/0x3d [nfsd] > > other info that might help us debug this: > 3 locks held by nfsd/6884: > #0: (hash_sem){----}, at: [<f8de05eb>] nfsd+0x181/0x2ea [nfsd] > #1: (client_mutex){--..}, at: [<f8df6d19>] > nfsd4_setclientid_confirm+0x3b/0x2cf [nfsd] > #2: (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<f8dfa621>] > nfsd4_clear_clid_dir+0x1f/0x3d [nfsd] > > stack backtrace: > [<c040524d>] dump_trace+0x69/0x1af > [<c04053ab>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x18/0x2c > [<c040595f>] show_trace+0xf/0x11 > [<c0405a53>] dump_stack+0x15/0x17 > [<c043ca7a>] __lock_acquire+0x110/0x9b6 > [<c043d91e>] lock_acquire+0x5c/0x7a > [<c061a41b>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xde/0x234 > [<c04811e5>] vfs_rmdir+0x73/0xf4 > [<f8dfa62b>] nfsd4_clear_clid_dir+0x29/0x3d [nfsd] > [<f8dfa733>] nfsd4_remove_clid_dir+0xb8/0xf8 [nfsd] > [<f8df6e90>] nfsd4_setclientid_confirm+0x1b2/0x2cf [nfsd] > [<f8def19a>] nfsd4_proc_compound+0x137a/0x166c [nfsd] > [<f8de00d5>] nfsd_dispatch+0xc5/0x180 [nfsd] > [<f8d09d83>] svc_process+0x3bd/0x631 [sunrpc] > [<f8de0604>] nfsd+0x19a/0x2ea [nfsd] > [<c0404e27>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > DWARF2 unwinder stuck at kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > Leftover inexact backtrace: > ======================= Some nesting annotation to the nfsd4 recovery code. The vfs operations called will take dentry->d_inode->i_mutex. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c~lockdep-annotate-nfsd4-recover-code fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c --- a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c~lockdep-annotate-nfsd4-recover-code +++ a/fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@ nfsd4_remove_clid_file(struct dentry *di printk("nfsd4: non-file found in client recovery directory\n"); return -EINVAL; } - mutex_lock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex); + mutex_lock_nested(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT); status = vfs_unlink(dir->d_inode, dentry); mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex); return status; @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ nfsd4_clear_clid_dir(struct dentry *dir, * any regular files anyway, just in case the directory was created by * a kernel from the future.... */ nfsd4_list_rec_dir(dentry, nfsd4_remove_clid_file); - mutex_lock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex); + mutex_lock_nested(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT); status = vfs_rmdir(dir->d_inode, dentry); mutex_unlock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex); return status; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch lockdep-annotate-i386-apm.patch rt-mutex-fixup-rt-mutex-debug-code.patch git-input.patch bonding-lockdep-annotation.patch grab-swap-token-reordered.patch new-scheme-to-preempt-swap-token.patch new-scheme-to-preempt-swap-token-tidy.patch lockdep-annotate-nfs-nfsd-in-kernel-sockets.patch lockdep-annotate-nfs-nfsd-in-kernel-sockets-tidy.patch remove-the-old-bd_mutex-lockdep-annotation.patch new-bd_mutex-lockdep-annotation.patch remove-lock_key-approach-to-managing-nested-bd_mutex-locks.patch simplify-some-aspects-of-bd_mutex-nesting.patch use-mutex_lock_nested-for-bd_mutex-to-avoid-lockdep-warning.patch avoid-lockdep-warning-in-md.patch lockdep-annotate-nfsd4-recover-code.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