linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.35-rc4-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.34

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Date:	Fri, 9 Jul 2010 04:56:30 +0200
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@...il.com>,
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	DRI <dri-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
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	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>,
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	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
Subject: Re: 2.6.35-rc4-git3: Reported regressions from 2.6.34

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 06:34:25PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@...k.pl> wrote:
> > Bug-Entry       : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16334
> > Subject         : reiserfs locking (v2)
> > Submitter       : Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
> > Date            : 2010-07-02 9:34 (7 days old)
> > Message-ID      : <20100702093451.GA3973@...rdfish.minsk.epam.com>
> > References      : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127806306303590&w=2
> 
> Frederic? Al? I assume this is some late fallout from the BKL removal
> ages ago.. It's the old filldir-vs-mmap crud, but normally it should
> be impossible to trigger because the inode for a directory should
> never be mmap'able, so we should never have the same i_mutex lock used
> for both mmap and for filldir protection.
> 
> We saw some of that oddity long ago, I wonder if it's lockdep being
> confused about some inodes.



I think it has been there from the beginning. At least it was there before
the reiserfs bkl removal in .32.


Indeed the readdir <-> unmap/release inversion problem can not happen.
But Al said that can happen between write and release. (Although I don't see
where write takes the inode mutex).

He also highlighted the fact that reiserfs refcounting based on i_count
was totally broken.

He has a fix the whole in the vfs tree, in the for-next branch on commit
6c2bdaf089a3876226893fab00dd83596c465ad2
"Fix reiserfs_file_release()"

No more uses of the i_mutex on release after that, nor i_count, but a private
openers refcount and a tailpack mutex per reiserfs inode.

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