Re: 2.6.21 reiserfs -- cicular locking?

["Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 12:21 -0400, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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> Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> > Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>> At Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:09:01 -0400,
> >>> Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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> >>>> Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >>>>> At Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:09:03 +0200,
> >>>>> I wrote:
> >>>>>> I got a similar bug right now at the fresh boot of 2.6.21.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ReiserFS: sda2: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
> >>>>>> ReiserFS: sda2: using ordered data mode
> >>>>>> ReiserFS: sda2: journal params: device sda2, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
> >>>>>> ReiserFS: sda2: checking transaction log (sda2)
> >>>>>> ReiserFS: sda2: Using r5 hash to sort names
> >>>>>> ReiserFS: sda2: Removing [3613 1354701 0x0 SD]..done
> >>>>>> ReiserFS: sda2: There were 1 uncompleted unlinks/truncates. Completed
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> =======================================================
> >>>>>> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> >>>>>> 2.6.21-work #1
> >>>>>> -------------------------------------------------------
> >>>>>> mktemp/1459 is trying to acquire lock:
> >>>>>>  (&REISERFS_I(inode)->xattr_sem){..--}, at: [<e08a5236>] reiserfs_cache_default_acl+0x2a/0x9c [reiserfs]
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> but task is already holding lock:
> >>>>>>  (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c016d7dc>] open_namei+0xe2/0x5a2
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> which lock already depends on the new lock.
> >>>>> The message disappears when I revert the patch:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> commit 9b7f375505f5611efb562065b57814b28a81abc3
> >>>>> Author: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
> >>>>> Date:   Mon Apr 23 14:41:17 2007 -0700
> >>>>>
> >>>>>     reiserfs: fix xattr root locking/refcount bug
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>
> >>>>> So, likely a newly introduced bug after rc7...
> >>>> I got a message with a trace similar to this from Vladimir before I
> >>>> submitted that patch. I'm not sure how to annotate this, since the
> >>>> xattr_sem can never be taken in the manner described. Internal inodes
> >>>> are protected by I_PRIVATE.
> >>> Hm, then maybe my case was just a coincidence.
> >>>
> >>> FWIW, I can reproduce the deadlock warning at each time I boot
> >>> non-patched 2.6.21, and after reverting the patch, it disappeared.
> > 
> > Ok, so I took another look at the report Vladimir sent me. The trace he
> > ran into was in the delete inode path, but was still a race between the
> > xattr_sem and the inode sem. Since we're locking the xattr root on the
> > xattr read path now, this condition arises more freqently, but it's
> > really the same one he reported.
> > 
> > I'm using the default openSUSE config, which doesn't enable mutex
> > debugging. I'll rebuild with it, and hopefully come up with a way to
> > kill the warning.
> 
> I still didn't get the warning, but can you try this and let me know
> if it fixes it?

I also reported this in another thread.  With this patch, I haven't seen
the tracing anymore.

Tony