linux-kernel - Re: next-20090220: XFS: inconsistent lock state

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Date:	Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:00:01 -0600
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
CC:	Alexander Beregalov <a.beregalov@...il.com>,
	"linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: next-20090220: XFS: inconsistent lock state

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 08:52:59PM +0300, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
>> 2.6.29-rc5-next-20090220 #2
>> ---------------------------------
>> inconsistent {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} -> {IN-RECLAIM_FS-R} usage.
>> kswapd0/324 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
>>  (&(&ip->i_lock)->mr_lock){+++++?}, at: [<ffffffff803ca60a>]
>> xfs_ilock+0xaa/0x120
>> {RECLAIM_FS-ON-W} state was registered at:
> 
> That's a false positive.  While the ilock can be taken in reclaim the
> allocation here is done before the inode is added to the inode cache.
> 
> The patch below should help avoiding the warning:

Seems ok to me.  I hate to see the BUG() added but I guess in this case
something truly bizarre would have to happen for the ilock to fail on
this inode.

on irc you sugggested ASSERT(0); instead of BUG(); I might prefer that
but either way:

Reviewed-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>

> 
> Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
> ===================================================================
> --- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c	2009-02-24 20:56:00.716027739 +0100
> +++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c	2009-02-24 20:56:46.089031360 +0100
> @@ -246,9 +246,6 @@ xfs_iget_cache_miss(
>  		goto out_destroy;
>  	}
>  
> -	if (lock_flags)
> -		xfs_ilock(ip, lock_flags);
> -
>  	/*
>  	 * Preload the radix tree so we can insert safely under the
>  	 * write spinlock. Note that we cannot sleep inside the preload
> @@ -259,6 +256,15 @@ xfs_iget_cache_miss(
>  		goto out_unlock;
>  	}
>  
> +	/*
> +	 * Because the inode hasn't been added to the radix-tree yet it can't
> +	 * be found by another thread, so we can do the non-sleeping lock here.
> +	 */
> +	if (lock_flags) {
> +		if (!xfs_ilock_nowait(ip, lock_flags))
> +			BUG();
> +	}
> +
>  	mask = ~(((XFS_INODE_CLUSTER_SIZE(mp) >> mp->m_sb.sb_inodelog)) - 1);
>  	first_index = agino & mask;
>  	write_lock(&pag->pag_ici_lock);
> 
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