On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> The deadlock happen in the HFS filesystem in hfs_cat_put(), apparently
> (quickly looking at addresses) in spin_lock().
<looks>
Uh-oh. Looks like hfs_cat_put() grabs some internal spinlock and calls
write_entry(). If it really is what its name implies, you are calling
a blocking function under the spinlock.
> So my question: Is there any document explaining the various locking
> requirements & re-entrency possibilities in a filesystem.
There is, but this bug has nothing fs-specific in it. You should never
block while holding a spinlock.
BTW, looks like 2.2 has the same bug.
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