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| author | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2007-10-14 01:38:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> | 2007-10-14 01:38:33 +0200 |
| commit | 14358e6ddaed27499d7d366b3e65c3e46b39e1c4 (patch) | |
| tree | de5a8919db855568577d0388fe30b5d7689e1f90 /fs/inode.c | |
| parent | d475fd428ce77aa2a8bc650d230e17663a4f49c3 (diff) | |
lockdep: annotate dir vs file i_mutex
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 22:13 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> The circular lock seems to be this:
>
> #1:
>
> sys_mmap2: down_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
> nfs_revalidate_mapping: mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
>
>
> #0:
>
> vfs_readdir: mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex);
> - during the readdir (filldir64), we take a user fault (missing page?)
> and call do_page_fault -
> do_page_fault: down_read(&mm->mmap_sem);
>
>
> So it does indeed look like a circular locking. Now the question is, "is
> this a bug?". Looking like the inode of #1 must be a file or something
> else that you can mmap and the inode of #0 seems it must be a directory.
> I would say "no".
>
> Now if you can readdir on a file or mmap a directory, then this could be
> an issue.
>
> Otherwise, I'd love to see someone teach lockdep about this issue! ;-)
Make a distinction between file and dir usage of i_mutex.
The inode should be complete and unused at unlock_new_inode(), re-init
i_mutex depending on its type.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/inode.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/inode.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c index bf6adf122c68..f97de0aeb3b6 100644 --- a/fs/inode.c +++ b/fs/inode.c @@ -567,6 +567,18 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(new_inode); void unlock_new_inode(struct inode *inode) { +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC + struct file_system_type *type = inode->i_sb->s_type; + /* + * ensure nobody is actually holding i_mutex + */ + mutex_destroy(&inode->i_mutex); + mutex_init(&inode->i_mutex); + if (inode->i_mode & S_IFDIR) + lockdep_set_class(&inode->i_mutex, &type->i_mutex_dir_key); + else + lockdep_set_class(&inode->i_mutex, &type->i_mutex_key); +#endif /* * This is special! We do not need the spinlock * when clearing I_LOCK, because we're guaranteed |