Re: possible deadlock in generic_file_write_iter

[Byungchul Park]

11/7/2017 5:11 PMì Peter Zijlstra ì(ê) ì ê:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 09:54:42AM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> > > The best I could come up with is something like the below; its not
> > > at all pretty and I could see people objecting; least of all myself for
> > > the __complete() thing, but I ran out of creative naming juice.
> >
> > Patches assigning a lock_class per gendisk were already applied in tip.
> > I believe that solves this.
> >
> >     e319e1fbd9d42420ab6eec0bfd75eb9ad7ca63b1
> >     block, locking/lockdep: Assign a lock_class per gendisk used for
> >     wait_for_completion()
> >
> > I think the following proposal makes kernel too hacky.
>
> Ah, I tough this was with those included...

Please CC me for issues wrt. crossrelease.

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Thanks,
Byungchul