linux-kernel - Re: ext3 lockdep warning in 2.6.25-rc6

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Message-Id: <200803222234.m2MMYRJo005108@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>
Date:	Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:34:27 -0400
From:	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Cc:	Erez Zadok <ezk@...sunysb.edu>, sct@...hat.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, adilger@...sterfs.com,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ext3 lockdep warning in 2.6.25-rc6 

In message <1206207527.6437.83.camel@...py>, Peter Zijlstra writes:
> On Sat, 2008-03-22 at 10:37 -0400, Erez Zadok wrote:
> > I was building a kernel using "make -j 4" inside a unionfs, mounted on top
> > of ext3.  The kernel is vanilla 2.6.25-rc6 plus unionfs patches.  At some
> > point I forced a cache flush using "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" and I
> > got the lockdep warning below.  Note that unionfs doesn't appear to be
> > involved in this lockdep warning at all, so I suspect this is probably an
> > issue between jbd and ext3 directly.
> 
> Known issue, drop_caches isn't production quality.

Is this a general problem with drop_caches, or its interaction with
ext3/jbd?  If I get a similar lockdep warning with other file systems,
should I bother to report this to the respective f/s maintainers?

Thanks,
Erez.
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