linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs: lockdep annotate root inode properly

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Message-ID: <20120308211055.GA12161@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 8 Mar 2012 16:10:56 -0500
From:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-mm@...ck.org, jboyer@...hat.com, tyhicks@...onical.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hugetlbfs: lockdep annotate root inode properly

On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 01:02:56PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

 > >  ======================================================
 > >  [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
 > >  3.3.0-rc4+ #190 Not tainted
 > >  -------------------------------------------------------
 > >  shared/1568 is trying to acquire lock:
 > >   (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#12){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff811efa0f>] hugetlbfs_file_mmap+0x7d/0x108
 > > 
 > >  but task is already holding lock:
 > >   (&mm->mmap_sem){++++++}, at: [<ffffffff810f5589>] sys_mmap_pgoff+0xd4/0x12f
 > > 
 > >  which lock already depends on the new lock.
 > > 
  > 
 > Why have these lockdep warnings started coming out now - was the VFS
 > changed to newly take i_mutex somewhere in the directory handling?

This has been happening for almost a year!
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/4/15/272
See also https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/16/498

	Dave

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