Re: XFS Deadlock on Linux 6.12.82

[Ammar Faizi]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 3:52 AM Dave Chinner wrote:
> Well known false positive.
>
> Lockdep knows nothing about inode reference counts and how they
> interact with memory reclaim. i.e. A referenced locked inode doing
> memory allocation cannot be found by memory reclaim processing
> unreferenced inodes, so reclaim cannot deadlock on inode locks held
> by referenced inodes when doing memory allocation.

I see, understandable. Thanks for the clarification!

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Ammar Faizi