Re: xfs_ilock: possible recursive locking detected

From: David Chinner
Date: Mon May 07 2007 - 22:33:08 EST


On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 11:44:45PM +0100, Simon Arlott wrote:
> [ 119.948000] =============================================
> [ 119.948000] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> [ 119.948000] 2.6.21-git #185
> [ 119.948000] ---------------------------------------------
> [ 119.948000] cc1/6496 is trying to acquire lock:
> [ 119.948000] (&(&ip->i_lock)->mr_lock){----}, at: [<b025d230>]
> xfs_ilock+0x60/0xb0
> [ 119.948000]
> [ 119.948000] but task is already holding lock:
> [ 119.948000] (&(&ip->i_lock)->mr_lock){----}, at: [<b025d230>]
> xfs_ilock+0x60/0xb0
> [ 119.948000]

Known false positive. There shoul dbe a git update for Linus in the
next couple of days that has the lockdep annotations needed to prevent
these false positives from coming up....

Cheers,

Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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