Re: [LOCKDEP] xfs: possible recursive locking detected

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 13:23 +1000, Nathan Scott wrote:
> 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.  

lockdep will catch those just fine.