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SubjectRe: [PATCH] sysfs: Add lockdep annotations for the sysfs active reference
On 01/03/2010 06:37 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Holding locks over device_del -> kobject_del -> sysfs_deactivate can
> cause deadlocks if those same locks are grabbed in sysfs show or store
> methods.
>
> The I model s_active count + completion as a sleeping read/write lock.
> I describe to lockdep sysfs_get_active as a read_trylock,
> sysfs_put_active as a read_unlock, and sysfs_deactivate as a
> write_lock and write_unlock pair. This seems to capture the essence
> for purposes of finding deadlocks, and in my testing gives finds real
> issues and ignores non-issues.
>
> This brings us back to holding locks over kobject_del is a problem
> that ideally we should find a way of addressing, but at least lockdep
> can tell us about the problems instead of requiring developers to debug
> rare strange system deadlocks, that happen when sysfs files are removed
> while being written to.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks for doing this.

--
tejun


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