On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:34:21AM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote: > Hi Dave, > > On 05/28/2014 02:00 PM, Dave Chinner wrote: > > > On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 01:19:16PM +0800, Gu Zheng wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> When running the latest Linus' tree, the following possible deadlock warning occurs. > > > > false positive. There isn't a deadlock between inode locks on > > different filesystems. i.e. there is no dependency between shmem > > inodes and xfs inodes, nor on their security contexts. Nor can you > > take a page fault on a directory inode, which is the XFS inode lock > > class it's complaining about. > > If it's really a noisy, can we avoid this? It's on my list of things to do. The XFs directory locking was changed slightly to remove race condition that SGI's CXFS filesystem was hitting, and that introduced all these lockdep false positives. Unfortunately, to get rid of the lockdep false positives we can either: a) revert the locking change; or b) rewrite the readdir code to use more fine grained locking so that we don't hold the lock over filldir() calls. I don't think that reverting a change that fixed a directory corruption problem is a good idea, so rewriting the readdir code is the solution. SGI have disappeared off the planet so they aren't going to fix it anytime soon, so it's waiting for me to find the time to finish and test the patches I have ibeen working on in my spare time that rework the readdir code. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
