On Tue, 20 May 2008 18:33:20 +0200 Louis Rilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > The following patches fix lockdep warnings resulting from (correct) > recursive locking in configfs. > > Current lockdep annotations for inode mutexes in configfs are > lockdep-friendly provided that: > 1/ config_groups have at most one level of default groups (see > configfs_attach_group()), > 2/ config_groups having default groups are never removed (see > configfs_detach_prep()). > > Since lockdep does not handle such correct recursion, the idea is to > insert lockdep_off()/lockdep_on() for inode mutexes as soon as the > level of recursion of the I_MUTEX_PARENT -> I_MUTEX_CHILD dependency > pattern increases. I'm... not entirely happy with such a solution ;( there must be a better one. _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-devel
