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SubjectOFD locks and deadlock detection
Hi Jeff,

I just happened to notice :

commit 57b65325fe34ec4c917bc4e555144b4a94d9e1f7
Author: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Date: Mon Feb 3 12:13:09 2014 -0500

locks: skip deadlock detection on FL_FILE_PVT locks

And then this thread:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.file-systems/81318/focus=81327
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton <at> redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v5 13/14] locks: skip deadlock detection on FL_FILE_PVT locks
Date: 2014-01-09 14:19:46 GMT

I think it's pretty important to document that. All implementations
of traditional process-associated (.k.a. "POSIX") locks that I've ever
come across do detect deadlocks, so it's important to note that OFD locks
do not.

I plan to add the following text to the fcntl(2) page:

[[
In the current implementation,
no deadlock detection is performed for open file description locks.
(This contrasts with process-associated record locks,
for which the kernel does perform deadlock detection.)
]]

Okay?

cheers,

Michael


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