xfs: possible circular locking dependency detected

Dave Chinner david at fromorbit.com
Fri Dec 12 16:02:44 CST 2008


On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:20:24PM +0800, Wu Fengguang wrote:
> Hi Dave,
> 
> I got this warning while accessing xfs on usb storage.
> Is this a real problem?

False positive. I haven't had time to add and test the lockdep
annotation Peter created last week to allow us to avoid this,
but hopefully that will make it go away.

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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