linux-ext4 - Re: Possible irq lock inversion dependency detected in JBD

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Date:	Tue, 8 Dec 2009 16:13:32 +0100
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	Vladislav Bolkhovitin <vst@...b.net>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible irq lock inversion dependency detected in JBD

  Hello,

> During testing I had the below trace from lockdep. After some googling seems
> it wasn't reported. The complete trace attached, it's almost 800K uncompressed.
> 
> =========================================================
> [ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ]
> 2.6.31-scst-dbg #3
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> kswapd0/290 just changed the state of lock:
>  (jbd_handle){+.+.-.}, at: [<7826a6fa>] journal_start+0xd4/0x13a
> but this lock took another, RECLAIM_FS-unsafe lock in the past:
>  (&type->s_lock_key){+.+.+.}
> 
> and interrupts could create inverse lock ordering between them.
> 
> 
> other info that might help us debug this:
> no locks held by kswapd0/290.
  Thanks for the report. If I'm reading the lockdep messages right, it
complains that page reclaim can be run with sb->s_lock held but we also
start a transaction in the page reclaim path and we take sb->s_lock after
starting a transaction in some paths.
  The warning seems to be false positive to me since we don't really
acquire sb->s_lock in the reclaim path. It would be nice if we could
get this sorted out but I don't see an easy way out of this...

								Honza

-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
SuSE CR Labs
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