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From: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@...>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...>
Cc: <linux-kernel@...>
Subject: lockdep wierdness...
Date: Monday, September 24, 2007 - 6:07 pm

I'm seeing lockdep warning about a potential lock inversion between
&mm->mmap_sem and &inode->i_mutex in NFS (see attachment).

Unfortunately the basis for the warning appears to be the behaviour in
ext3(???). AFAICS there is no way for NFS to share an inode->i_mutex
with ext3. What to do?

Trond
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lockdep wierdness..., Trond Myklebust, (Mon Sep 24, 6:07 pm)
Re: lockdep wierdness..., Steven Rostedt, (Mon Sep 24, 10:13 pm)
Re: lockdep wierdness..., Peter Zijlstra, (Thu Sep 27, 9:51 am)
Re: lockdep wierdness..., Christoph Hellwig, (Thu Sep 27, 10:00 am)
Re: lockdep wierdness..., Peter Zijlstra, (Thu Sep 27, 11:58 am)