Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757628Ab3JJQJw (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Oct 2013 12:09:52 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:52644 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755851Ab3JJPov (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Oct 2013 11:44:51 -0400 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Mikulas Patocka , Mike Snitzer , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 057/104] dm snapshot: workaround for a false positive lockdep warning Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 08:41:45 -0700 Message-Id: <1381419752-29733-58-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1381419752-29733-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1381419752-29733-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 3.8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1964 Lines: 55 3.8.13.11 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mikulas Patocka commit 5ea330a75bd86b2b2a01d7b85c516983238306fb upstream. The kernel reports a lockdep warning if a snapshot is invalidated because it runs out of space. The lockdep warning was triggered by commit 0976dfc1d0cd80a4e9dfaf87bd87 ("workqueue: Catch more locking problems with flush_work()") in v3.5. The warning is false positive. The real cause for the warning is that the lockdep engine treats different instances of md->lock as a single lock. This patch is a workaround - we use flush_workqueue instead of flush_work. This code path is not performance sensitive (it is called only on initialization or invalidation), thus it doesn't matter that we flush the whole workqueue. The real fix for the problem would be to teach the lockdep engine to treat different instances of md->lock as separate locks. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c b/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c index 3ac4156..4caa8e6 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-snap-persistent.c @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ static int chunk_io(struct pstore *ps, void *area, chunk_t chunk, int rw, */ INIT_WORK_ONSTACK(&req.work, do_metadata); queue_work(ps->metadata_wq, &req.work); - flush_work(&req.work); + flush_workqueue(ps->metadata_wq); return req.result; } -- 1.8.1.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/