From: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Anton Vorontsov <anton@enomsg.org>,
Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>, Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Marta Lofstedt <marta.lofstedt@intel.com>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pstore: Solve lockdep warning by moving inode locks
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 08:52:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170428075233.GI3390@nuc-i3427.alporthouse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170427232037.GA98375@beast>
On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 04:20:37PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Lockdep complains about a possible deadlock between mount and unlink
> (which is technically impossible), but fixing this improves possible
> future multiple-backend support, and keeps locking in the right order.
I have merged your for-next/pstore branch (which included this patch,
so I hope I chose correctly ;) into our CI. That should exercise it on
the machines that we originally found the lockdep splat.
Thanks,
-Chris
--
Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-28 7:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-27 23:20 [PATCH] pstore: Solve lockdep warning by moving inode locks Kees Cook
2017-04-28 3:15 ` Namhyung Kim
2017-04-28 7:52 ` Chris Wilson [this message]
2017-04-28 9:00 ` Lofstedt, Marta
2017-04-28 19:21 ` Kees Cook
2017-05-02 10:10 ` Lofstedt, Marta
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