[3.18.1] Lockdep detected a potential deadlock

[Dave Chinner]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 08:44:38PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> In my dmesg, I found a warning about a potential deadlock, and xfs
> is mentioned there. The dmesg is attached. Could you please look?

http://oss.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2014-10/msg00319.html

The VFS splice locking architecture is broken - nothing we can do
about that in XFS....

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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