[Cyrill Gorcunov - Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 10:28:40AM +0400]
| [Andrew Morton - Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 03:49:42PM -0700]
| | On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 00:01:46 +0400 Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| |
| | > [Andrew Morton - Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 12:16:16PM -0700]
| | > [...snip...]
| | > |
| | > | No, the problem is that the patch caused the kernel to take inode_lock
| | > | within the newly-added drop_inode(), btu drop_inode() is already called
| | > | under inode_lock.
| | > |
| | > | It has nothing to do with lock_kernel() and it has nothing to do with
| | > | sleeping.
| | > |
| | >
| | > Andrew, the only call that could leading to subseq. inode_lock lock
| | > is mark_inode_dirty() I guess (and that is snown by Eric's dump)
| | > but as I shown you in my dbg print without SMP it's OK. So
| | > is it SMP who lead to lock? How it depends on it? (I understand
| | > that is a stupid question for you but if you have time explain
| | > me this please ;)
| | >
| |
| | When CONFIG_SMP=n, spin_lock() is a no-op. (Except with CONFIG_PREEMPT=y,
| | in which case spin_lock() will disable kernel preemption on SMP and non-SMP
| | kernels)
| |
| | When CONFIG_SMP=y, spin_lock() really does take a lock. But if this thread
| | already holds this lock, we'll deadlock.
| |
|
| Thanks, Andrew. So the reason that raises lock problem is the calling of
| mark_inode_dirty() inside drop_inode() (by indirection). And I see two way
| of solution:
|
| - or check for inode->i_count at each mark_inode_dirty that being called
| after drop_inode
|
| if (inode->i_count > 0)
| mark_inode_dirty()
|
| - or wrap mark_inode_dirty as
|
| udf_mark_inode_dirty()
| {
- if (inode->i_count > 0)
+ if (atomic_read(&inode->i_count) > 0)
| mark_inode_dirty();
| }
|
| and replace all mark_inode_dirty -> udf_mark_inode_dirty
|
| Your thoughts?
|
| Cyrill
|
Cyrill
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