Re: JFS: possible recursive locking detected

[Srinivasa Ds <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>]

Tomasz Kvarsin wrote:
> This I got during boot with 2.6.20-rc4:
> =============================================
> [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> 2.6.20-rc4 #3
> ---------------------------------------------
> mount/5819 is trying to acquire lock:
> (&jfs_ip->commit_mutex){--..}, at: [<c03395e1>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x30
>
> but task is already holding lock:
> (&jfs_ip->commit_mutex){--..}, at: [<c03395e1>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x30
>
> other info that might help us debug this:
> 2 locks held by mount/5819:
> #0:  (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c03395e1>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x30
> #1:  (&jfs_ip->commit_mutex){--..}, at: [<c03395e1>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x30
Problem was in jfs_create(), it was calling 2 mutex_calls.
=============================================
static int jfs_create(struct inode *dip, struct dentry *dentry, int mode,
               struct nameidata *nd)
{
       int rc = 0;
       tid_t tid;              /* transaction id */
       struct inode *ip = NULL;        /* child directory inode */
       ino_t ino;
       struct component_name dname;    /* child directory name */
       struct btstack btstack;
       struct inode *iplist[2];
       struct tblock *tblk;

       jfs_info("jfs_create: dip:0x%p name:%s", dip, dentry->d_name.name);
     .....................................
      tid = txBegin(dip->i_sb, 0);

       mutex_lock(&JFS_IP(dip)->commit_mutex);
       mutex_lock(&JFS_IP(ip)->commit_mutex);

       rc = jfs_init_acl(tid, ip, dip);
       if (rc)
               goto out3;
=======================================

So below patch should fix this problem,please test this. Let me know 
your comments on this.

Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>


 namei.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: linux-2.6.20-rc4/fs/jfs/namei.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.20-rc4.orig/fs/jfs/namei.c
+++ linux-2.6.20-rc4/fs/jfs/namei.c
@@ -104,8 +104,8 @@ static int jfs_create(struct inode *dip,
 
 	tid = txBegin(dip->i_sb, 0);
 
-	mutex_lock(&JFS_IP(dip)->commit_mutex);
-	mutex_lock(&JFS_IP(ip)->commit_mutex);
+	mutex_lock_nested(&JFS_IP(dip)->commit_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
+	mutex_lock_nested(&JFS_IP(ip)->commit_mutex, I_MUTEX_CHILD);
 
 	rc = jfs_init_acl(tid, ip, dip);
 	if (rc)