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Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 22:25:18 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: ext4 development <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [Bug 9483] circular locking dependency detected
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* Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> =======================================================
> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> 2.6.24-rc3 #6
> -------------------------------------------------------
> bash/2294 is trying to acquire lock:
> (&journal->j_list_lock){--..}, at: [<c01eee2f>] journal_try_to_free_buffers+0x76/0x10c
> 
> but task is already holding lock:
> (inode_lock){--..}, at: [<c01864b6>] drop_pagecache+0x48/0xd8
> 
> which lock already depends on the new lock.

Andrew, drop_pagecache() is root-only and it has some known deadlock, 
right?

	Ingo
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