linux-kernel - Re: [RFC, PATCH] locks: remove posix deadlock detection

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Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:15:19 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Matthew Wilcox <matthew@....cx>,
	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"George G. Davis" <gdavis@...sta.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, PATCH] locks: remove posix deadlock detection

On Sun, 28 Oct 2007, J. Bruce Fields wrote:

> But, OK, if we can identify unshared current->files at the time we put a 
> task to sleep, then a slight modification of our current algorithm might 
> be sufficient to detect any deadlock that involves purely posix file 
> locks and processes.  And we can tell people that avoiding deadlock is 
> their problem as soon as any task with a shared current->files is 
> involved.  (Ditto, I assume, if nfsd/lockd acquires a lock.)

Don't forget that comparing file_lock->fl_owner (i.e. current->files) is 
not the only way how lock ownership could be computed (there could be 
specific file_lock->fl_lmops->fl_compare_owner() and all of them should 
be teached this new semantics, right?).

-- 
Jiri Kosina
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