linux-kernel - Re: -mm: xfs lockdep warning

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Date:	Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:13:55 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
Cc:	Yang Ruirui <ruirui.r.yang@...to.com>, hch@...radead.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, xfs@....sgi.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Alex Elder <aelder@....com>
Subject: Re: -mm: xfs lockdep warning

On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:52:27AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> Christoph, this implies an inode that has been marked for reclaim
> that has not passed through xfs_fs_evict_inode() after being
> initialised. If it went through the eviction process, the iolock
> would have been re-initialised to a different context. Can you think
> of any path that can get here without going through ->evict? I can't
> off the top of my head...

I think this could happen if the init_inode_always during
re-initialization of an inode in reclaim fails in iget.  I have a patch
to add that I'll run through xfsqa.  It should only happen very rarely.

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