Re: [LOCKDEP] xfs: possible recursive locking detected

[Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 11:12:47AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Nathan Scott <nathans@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > That would be good, but it doesn't work for all situations 
> > unfortunately, and it would loose that debug-kernel sanity checking 
> > that we have in there which validates ilock/iolock ordering rules.
> 
> do you have anything in there that spinlock/mutex debugging or lockdep 
> does not catch? If yes then i'll add it to the generic lock debugging 
> code.

The thing we're catching automatically there is potential ordering
violations on the XFS inode iolock vs ilock.  I don't know if the
other methods can help us there too or not.

cheers.

-- 
Nathan