Re: hugetlb locking bug.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Fri Apr 15 2011 - 17:07:12 EST


On Fri, 2011-04-15 at 16:57 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 01:49:04PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > And I really thought we annotated it as such with different
> > "lockdep_set_class()" cases (ie the whole
> >
> > lockdep_set_class(&inode->i_mutex,&type->i_mutex_dir_key);
> >
> > for the S_ISDIR case in unlock_new_inode().
> >
> > Can somebody more alert than me see why this lockdep issue still
> > triggers with hugetlbfs?
>
> Because it doesn't use iget or unlock_new_inode, but rather calls
> directly into new_inode(). It and other filesystems not using
> unlock_new_inode will need a local copy of that logic.

Is there a sane reason they do their own magic, and thus need a copy of
the logic, instead of using the generic code that already has it?

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