Re: [4.15-rc9] fs_reclaim lockdep trace

[Linus Torvalds]

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 2:24 PM, Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 08:36:51PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > Just triggered this on a server I was rsync'ing to.
>
> Actually, I can trigger this really easily, even with an rsync from one
> disk to another.  Though that also smells a little like networking in
> the traces. Maybe netdev has ideas.

Is this new to 4.15? Or is it just that you're testing something new?

If it's new and easy to repro, can you just bisect it? And if it isn't
new, can you perhaps check whether it's new to 4.14 (ie 4.13 being
ok)?

Because that fs_reclaim_acquire/release() debugging isn't new to 4.15,
but it was rewritten for 4.14.. I'm wondering if that remodeling ended
up triggering something.

Adding PeterZ to the participants list in case he has ideas. I'm not
seeing what would be the problem in that call chain from hell.

               Linus