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    SubjectRe: 2.6.24-rc7 lockdep warning when poweroff

    * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

    > > > The patch looks ok, one important thing to note is that it means
    > > > that all workqueues instantiated by the same __create_workqueue()
    > > > call-site share lock dependency chains - I'm unsure if that might
    > > > get us into trouble or not.
    > >
    > > It doesn't seem to have so far ;) I don't think it should. If some
    > > code allocates a per-instance workqueue that's much like having an
    > > inode lock or so.
    >
    > We had to split up the inode lock to per filesystem classes, just
    > because the lock chains were conflicting between them...

    i.e. filesystems can legally have different locking rules wrt. i_lock. I
    dont really like it (we should have as simple locking rules as possible)
    but it is the VFS status quo :)

    Ingo


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