Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:13:55 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: -mm: xfs lockdep warning |
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:52:27AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > Christoph, this implies an inode that has been marked for reclaim > that has not passed through xfs_fs_evict_inode() after being > initialised. If it went through the eviction process, the iolock > would have been re-initialised to a different context. Can you think > of any path that can get here without going through ->evict? I can't > off the top of my head...
I think this could happen if the init_inode_always during re-initialization of an inode in reclaim fails in iget. I have a patch to add that I'll run through xfsqa. It should only happen very rarely.
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