Re: LOCKDEP: 3.9-rc1: mount.nfs/4272 still has locks held!

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Tuesday, March 05, 2013 06:11:10 PM J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 09:49:54AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 09:46:48AM -0800, Tejun Heo wrote:
> > > So, I think this is why implementing freezer as a separate blocking
> > > mechanism isn't such a good idea.  We're effectively introducing a
> > > completely new waiting state to a lot of unsuspecting paths which
> > > generates a lot of risks and eventually extra complexity to work
> > > around those.  I think we really should update freezer to re-use the
> > > blocking points we already have - the ones used for signal delivery
> > > and ptracing.  That way, other code paths don't have to worry about an
> > > extra stop state and we can confine most complexities to freezer
> > > proper.
> > 
> > Also, consolidating those wait states means that we can solve the
> > event-to-response latency problem for all three cases - signal, ptrace
> > and freezer, rather than adding separate backing-out strategy for
> > freezer.
> 
> Meanwhile, as none of this sounds likely to be done this time
> around--are we backing out the new lockdep warnings?

I think we should do that.

Thanks,
Rafael


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.