Re: [ckrm-tech] Circular Locking Dependency Chain detected in containers code

2007-08-07 Thread Paul Menage
On 8/7/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The typical annotation would be using spin_lock_nested/mutex_lock_nested > with a non-0 nesting level for this one case. > OK, I'll look into this when I get back from vacation. Thanks, Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

Re: [ckrm-tech] Circular Locking Dependency Chain detected in containers code

2007-08-07 Thread Peter Zijlstra
On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 13:10 -0700, Paul Menage wrote: > I'm away from work at the moment and can't investigate fully, but it > looks as though this may be the same one that I mentioned in the > introductory email to the patchset. If so, it's a false positive - > there's a point in the container mou

Re: [ckrm-tech] Circular Locking Dependency Chain detected in containers code

2007-08-07 Thread Paul Menage
I'm away from work at the moment and can't investigate fully, but it looks as though this may be the same one that I mentioned in the introductory email to the patchset. If so, it's a false positive - there's a point in the container mount code where we need to lock a newly-created (and hence guara

Circular Locking Dependency Chain detected in containers code

2007-08-06 Thread Dhaval Giani
Hi Paul, I have hit upon a circular locking dependency while doing an rmdir on a directory inside the containers code. I believe that it is safe as no one should be able to rmdir when a container is getting mounted. To reproduce it, just do a rmdir inside the container.