On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 10:00 PM, Jarod Wilson <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 09:40:34AM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 08, 2015 at 02:50:59PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote: >> > Hi Jarod, >> > >> > On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Jarod Wilson <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: >> > > From: Ming Lei <ming....@canonical.com> >> > > >> > > The lo_ctl_mutex is held for running all ioctl handlers, and >> > > in some ioctl handlers, ioctl_by_bdev(BLKRRPART) is called for >> > > rereading partitions, which requires bd_mutex. >> > > >> > > So it is easy to cause failure because trylock(bd_mutex) may >> > > fail inside blkdev_reread_part(), and follows the lock context: >> > > >> > > blkid or other application: >> > > ->open() >> > > ->mutex_lock(bd_mutex) >> > > ->lo_open() >> > > ->mutex_lock(lo_ctl_mutex) >> > > >> > > losetup(set fd ioctl): >> > > ->mutex_lock(lo_ctl_mutex) >> > > ->ioctl_by_bdev(BLKRRPART) >> > > ->trylock(bd_mutex) >> > > >> > > This patch trys to eliminate the ABBA lock dependency by removing >> > > lo_ctl_mutext in lo_open() with the following approach: >> > > >> > > 1) introduce lo_open_mutex to protect lo_refcnt and avoid acquiring >> > > lo_ctl_mutex in lo_open(): >> > >> > It is a bit quick since I said the lo_open_mutex can be removed, >> > and Christoph agreed that too. >> > >> > So looks we still need to post another version, :-) >> >> Ah. I missed that bit. Just trying to keep up momentum. > > Are you working on that atomic_t version then, or should I dive into it?
It has been ready, and I will post them out once it passes my tests. Thanks, -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
