linux-kernel - Re: reiserfs deadlock

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Date:	Fri, 5 Feb 2010 04:59:57 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: reiserfs deadlock

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 04:46:38AM +0300, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
> Hi Frederic
> 
> Does it help?

Nope :-S

I need the full stracktraces. Plus the fact a thread holds
the reiserfs lock doesn't help much in this regard. This
is a drawback of lockdep: "holding" a lock in such lock dump
means either: the task holds the lock _or_ the task requests the
lock and block on it.

The only way to determine if a task really holds the reiserfs
lock is to look at the stack trace and see if it blocks on
reiserfs_write_lock_*() or something else. If this is something
else, then it means it really holds it, and there are fair
chances this is exactly the stacktrace we want: the one that
raised the softlockup.

Thanks!

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