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Message-ID: <20091227212700.GA7613@discord.disaster>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:27:00 +1100
From: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To: Christian Kujau <lists@...dbynature.de>
Cc: xfs@....sgi.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: lockdep: inconsistent lock state
On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 01:07:49PM -0800, Christian Kujau wrote:
> Hi,
>
> during tests with bonnie++ on an XFS filesystem, the warning below is
> issued. From the message's timestamps, the warning occurs during the
> "Create files in sequential order" phase. I've put a few more details and
> the config here: http://nerdbynature.de/bits/2.6.33-rc2/xfs_ilock
>
> Something similar has been reported in http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/20/269
> (for 2.6.29-rc5) and a fix for this false positive made its way into
> mainline as ed93ec3907f063268ced18728d0653f6199d100c - so I take it this
> is a different issue then?
This is the usual false positive that is detected - XFS takes locks in
reclaim that it also takes in non-reclaim paths. The reclaim path
from kswapd inverts lock ordering and so we get this report. This
case has never been a deadlock case because an inode in reclaim
cannot be referenced by any other path, so once again it is a
false positive....
Cheers,
Dave.
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Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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