Re: [RESEND] Circular locking dependency involving, elevator_lock, rq_qos_mutex and pcpu_alloc_mutex

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Thu May 01 2025 - 13:02:57 EST


Hello,

On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 12:32:50PM +0530, Nilay Shroff wrote:
> Thanks for the report! This is now a known issue. And we're currently working on
> it to cut dependency of q->io_lockdep_map (or queue freeze-lock) on q->elevator_lock.
> Please see below :https://lore.kernel.org/linux-block/67e6b425.050a0220.2f068f.007b.GAE@xxxxxxxxxx/
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250403105402.1334206-1-ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxx/

Any progress on this? The last activity on the threads seems to be back on
Apr 10th and we're getting close to rc5. If we need to revert, I think it's
about time to decide.

Thanks.

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tejun