linux-kernel - Re: LOCKDEP: 3.9-rc1: mount.nfs/4272 still has locks held!

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Date:	Tue, 5 Mar 2013 17:28:00 -0800
From:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
To:	"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>
Cc:	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...omium.org>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: LOCKDEP: 3.9-rc1: mount.nfs/4272 still has locks held!

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 05:14:23PM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Then, the operation simply isn't freezable while in progress and
> should be on the receiving end of failed-to-freeze error message and
> users who depend on suspend/hibernation working properly should be
> advised away from using nfs.
> 
> It doesn't really changes anything.  The current code is buggy.  We're
> just not enforcing the rules strictly and people aren't hitting the
> bug often enough.

Just one more thing.  Also, not being able to do retries without
side-effect doesn't mean it can't do retries at all.  There are
syscalls which need to do things differently on re-entry (forgot which
one but there are several).  They record the necessary state in the
restart block and resume from where they left off on re-entry.  It
sure is hairy but is doable and we already have supporting
infrastructure.  Not sure whether that would be worthwhile tho.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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