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

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Date:	Tue, 5 Mar 2013 19:11:12 -0800
From:	Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...omium.org>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Jeff Layton <jlayton@...hat.com>,
	"Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@...app.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>,
	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 5, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 08:05:07PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
>> If it's really just a 2-line patch to try_to_freeze(), could it just be
>> carried out-of-tree by people that are specifically working on tracking
>> down these problems?
>>
>> But I don't have strong feelings about it--as long as it doesn't result
>> in the same known issues getting reported again and again....
>
> Agreed, I don't think a Kconfig option is justified for this.  If this
> is really important, annotate broken paths so that it doesn't trigger
> spuriously; otherwise, please just remove it.
>

Fair enough. Let's revert then. I'll rework to use a lockdep annotation.

Maybe, add a new lockdep API:

lockdep_set_held_during_freeze(lock);

Then when we do the check, ignore any locks that set this bit.

Ingo, does this seem like a reasonable design to you?

Regards,
Mandeep

> Thanks.
>
> --
> tejun
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