Re: splice vs execve lockdep trace.

[Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 08:25:14PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
 
 
 > And looking more at that, I'm actually starting to think this is an
 > XFS locking problem. XFS really should not call back to splice while
 > holding the inode lock.
 > 
 > But that XFS code doesn't seem new either. Is XFS a new thing for you
 > to test with?

I started pounding on it fairly recently and have shook out a number
of bugs (now fixed) since I started, so relatively new, but on the order of 
'months' now.

        Dave