Re: [xfs-masters] INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected

[John Kacur <jkacur@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> This has been around for a long time, the VM calls into fput and thus
> ->release with the mmap_sem held, which makes it really hard for a
> filesystem to avoid a lock inversion if it uses a lock both in ->release
> and the I/O path.
> 
> I have a workaround for this to only acquire the XFS iolock with a
> trylock in the release path and leave cleaning up stale preallocations
> until the final iput.  It's not pretty, but given that we're unlikely
> to see the VM fixed I might aswell finally send it for inclusion.
> 

In seems very easy and reliable to reproduce on my machine - so I am happy 
to test the patch here when you're ready.

Thanks

John