On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 10:02:00PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.20-rc3/2.6.20-rc3-mm1/
Hi,
The reiser4-sb_sync_inodes.patch, which goal is to:
"This patch moves spin_lock/spin_unlock down to sync_sb_inodes."
Only really moved the spin_unlock, thus triggering the following
lockdep message:
[ 65.267402] =====================================
[ 65.267508] [ BUG: bad unlock balance detected! ]
[ 65.267563] -------------------------------------
[ 65.267619] swapper/0 is trying to release lock (inode_lock) at:
[ 65.267751] [<c018f573>] generic_sync_sb_inodes+0xa6/0x2e8
[ 65.267853] but there are no more locks to release!
[ 65.267908]
[ 65.267909] other info that might help us debug this:
[ 65.268014] 1 lock held by swapper/0:
[ 65.268068] #0: (&type->s_umount_key){--..}, at: [<c0174c18>] alloc_super+0xe8/0x1a5
[ 65.268330]
[ 65.268330] stack backtrace:
[ 65.268433] [<c010390d>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
[ 65.268528] [<c0103935>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
[ 65.268621] [<c0103a2f>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18
[ 65.268714] [<c013b2a0>] print_unlock_inbalance_bug+0xce/0xd8
[ 65.268811] [<c013b39b>] lock_release_non_nested+0x6f/0x172
[ 65.268907] [<c013b4d2>] lock_release_nested+0x34/0xdc
[ 65.269001] [<c013b5ce>] __lock_release+0x54/0x56
[ 65.269095] [<c013b809>] lock_release+0x46/0x60
[ 65.269188] [<c03e8660>] _spin_unlock+0x16/0x40
[ 65.269284] [<c018f573>] generic_sync_sb_inodes+0xa6/0x2e8
[ 65.269379] [<c018f7d5>] sync_sb_inodes+0x20/0x23
[ 65.269472] [<c018f937>] sync_inodes_sb+0x82/0x8a
[ 65.269566] [<c0174eab>] __fsync_super+0xd/0x84
[ 65.269659] [<c0174f2d>] fsync_super+0xb/0x19
[ 65.269753] [<c017558a>] do_remount_sb+0x30/0xee
[ 65.269846] [<c0175aa2>] get_sb_single+0x66/0x8b
[ 65.269940] [<c01b45c1>] sysfs_get_sb+0x1d/0x2c
[ 65.270036] [<c0175b49>] vfs_kern_mount+0x82/0xfb
[ 65.270130] [<c0175c19>] kern_mount+0x16/0x1d
[ 65.270223] [<c055ddb6>] sysfs_init+0x57/0xad
[ 65.270319] [<c055c8d2>] mnt_init+0xbf/0x13b
[ 65.270412] [<c055c555>] vfs_caches_init+0x97/0xa7
[ 65.270506] [<c0544bd4>] start_kernel+0x1ca/0x261
[ 65.270600] [<00000000>] 0x0
[ 65.270691] =======================
Regards,
Frederik
Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt <[email protected]>
diff --git a/fs/fs-writeback.c b/fs/fs-writeback.c
index ea054f7..7e84b93 100644
--- a/fs/fs-writeback.c
+++ b/fs/fs-writeback.c
@@ -306,6 +306,8 @@ int generic_sync_sb_inodes(struct super_
const unsigned long start = jiffies; /* livelock avoidance */
int ret = 0;
+ spin_lock(&inode_lock);
+
if (!wbc->for_kupdate || list_empty(&sb->s_io))
list_splice_init(&sb->s_dirty, &sb->s_io);
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