On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 04:57:11PM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > I'm running a kernel somewhere between 3.18-rc3 and 3.18-rc4. I got > the warnings below. Is this a known issue? Yup, false positive. shmem is instantiating an inode under the mmap_sem and in doing so taking inode locks under the mmap_sem, which triggers other filesystems to issue false warnings about mmap_sem <-> inode lock order. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs