Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751373Ab0GJRZV (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:25:21 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:58016 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750876Ab0GJRZU (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:25:20 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100710070650.GA16248@elte.hu> References: <20100710014504.GC5269@nowhere> <20100710070650.GA16248@elte.hu> Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:24:28 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Bug #15805] reiserfs locking From: Linus Torvalds To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Frederic Weisbecker , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , Maciej Rutecki , Alexander Beregalov , Alexander Viro Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1825 Lines: 53 On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Since it's a reproducible deadlock maybe the fix should go upstream faster > than v2.6.36? As far as I know, it's only a lockdep warning, not an actual deadlock. And it's in a class of lockdep warnings that we've had for a long time, and has never actually triggered as a read deadlock afaik. I also don't think it's a new warning - or at least I don't see why it would have started triggering after 2.6.34. My preferred fix in many ways would be to make the locking in the VM layer less incestuous. For example, we could fairly easily move the final if (vma->vm_file) fput(vma->vm_file); outside the actual mmap_sem lock (well, "fairly easily" here means keeping the list of free'd vmas around for longer, probably in the task_struct thing, and then replacing all the "up_write(&mm->mmap_sem)" things with a "unlock_mm(mm)" looking something like static void unlock_mm(struct mm_struct *mm) { struct vm_area_struct *vma_list = current->vma_to_free; if (vma_list) current->vma_to_free = NULL; up_write(&mm->mmap_sem); while (vma_list) { struct vm_area_struct *vma = vma_list; vma_list = vma_list->next; fput(vma_list->vm_file); kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma); } } which would fairly trivially delay the actual 'fput()' to after we hold no locks. I dunno if it's really worth it, but it doesn't look all that complicated, and it would avoid at least _some_ lock dependencies. Linus Linus -- 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/