jffs2 lockdep warning
David Brownell
david-b at pacbell.net
Wed Apr 30 00:39:35 EDT 2008
This little surprise happened from busybox 1.7.2 "ash" when I typed:
$ echo $(( 2 + 2 ))
I didn't try to reproduce it. The kernel used GIT that was current
as of sometime this afternoon.
- Dave
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[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
2.6.25 #316
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ash/378 is trying to acquire lock:
(&c->alloc_sem){--..}, at: [<900b9ea4>] jffs2_reserve_space+0x28/0x120
but task is already holding lock:
(&ei->sem){--..}, at: [<900c0584>] jffs2_new_inode+0x4c/0x180
which lock already depends on the new lock.
the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
-> #1 (&ei->sem){--..}:
[<90034b48>] lock_acquire+0x40/0x58
[<90159b2a>] mutex_lock_nested+0x82/0x1bc
[<900c0a4a>] jffs2_do_setattr+0x13a/0x618
[<900c0f9c>] jffs2_setattr+0x18/0x1c
[<900615d0>] notify_change+0xd8/0x100
[<90069d30>] do_utimes+0x168/0x198
[<90069ed2>] sys_utime+0x6a/0x8c
[<90010136>] syscall_return+0x0/0x12
-> #0 (&c->alloc_sem){--..}:
[<90034b48>] lock_acquire+0x40/0x58
[<90159b2a>] mutex_lock_nested+0x82/0x1bc
[<900b9ea4>] jffs2_reserve_space+0x28/0x120
[<900bc90a>] jffs2_do_create+0x26/0x220
[<900b75ba>] jffs2_create+0x6e/0xc8
[<90058cc8>] vfs_create+0x48/0x54
[<9005a830>] do_filp_open+0x174/0x614
[<90052914>] do_sys_open+0x30/0x5c
[<90052956>] sys_open+0xe/0x10
[<90010136>] syscall_return+0x0/0x12
other info that might help us debug this:
2 locks held by ash/378:
#0: (&type->i_mutex_dir_key#2){--..}, at: [<9005a7a0>] do_filp_open+0xe4/0x614
#1: (&ei->sem){--..}, at: [<900c0584>] jffs2_new_inode+0x4c/0x180
stack backtrace:
Call trace:
[<90013320>] dump_stack+0x18/0x20
[<90032f36>] print_circular_bug_tail+0x4a/0x60
[<90034308>] __lock_acquire+0x7a8/0x9b0
[<90034b48>] lock_acquire+0x40/0x58
[<90159b2a>] mutex_lock_nested+0x82/0x1bc
[<900b9ea4>] jffs2_reserve_space+0x28/0x120
[<900bc90a>] jffs2_do_create+0x26/0x220
[<900b75ba>] jffs2_create+0x6e/0xc8
[<90058cc8>] vfs_create+0x48/0x54
[<9005a830>] do_filp_open+0x174/0x614
[<90052914>] do_sys_open+0x30/0x5c
[<90052956>] sys_open+0xe/0x10
[<90010136>] syscall_return+0x0/0x12
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