Re: sysfs: use a separate locking class for open files depending onmmap

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Dec 03 2013 - 16:37:01 EST


Hey,

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 04:15:15PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > Somehow I just triggered this trace again, even with this commit applied.
> > > The trace is pretty much identical to the old one.
> >
> > Hah, ain't that weird. That's the trace you reported on the other
> > mail, right? I'll follow up on that one.
>
> just so there's no doubt, here's a fresh one.

Argh, found the culprit. The unified mmap path grabs of->mutex to
check whether the file implements mmap, which means that if you try to
mmap a file which doesn't implement mmap, you still add the locking
dependency. I'm working on the fix.

Thanks.

--
tejun
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