linux-kernel - Re: [BUG??] Deadlock between kswapd and sys_inotify_add

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Message-Id: <1233571202.4787.124.camel@laptop>
Date:	Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:40:02 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	MinChan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	linux kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux mm <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG??] Deadlock between kswapd and
 sys_inotify_add_watch(lockdep  report)

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 19:25 +0900, MinChan Kim wrote:
> But, I am not sure whether it's real bug or not.

Me neither, inode life-times are tricky, but on first sight it looks
real enough.

> I always suffer from reading lockdep report's result. :(
> It would be better to have a document about lockdep report analysis.

I've never found them hard to read, so I'm afraid you'll have to be more
explicit about what is unclear to you.

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