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Tejun Heo authored
During the recent conversion of cgroup to kernfs, cgroup_tree_mutex which nests above both the kernfs s_active protection and cgroup_mutex is added to synchronize cgroup file type operations as cgroup_mutex needed to be grabbed from some file operations and thus can't be put above s_active protection. While this arrangement mostly worked for cgroup, this triggered the following lockdep warning. ====================================================== [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 3.15.0-rc3-next-20140430-sasha-00016-g4e281fa-dirty #429 Tainted: G W ------------------------------------------------------- trinity-c173/9024 is trying to acquire lock: (blkcg_pol_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: blkcg_reset_stats (include/linux/spinlock.h:328 block/blk-cgroup.c:455) but task is already holding lock: (s_active#89){++++.+}, at: kernfs_fop_write (fs/kernfs/file.c:283) which lock already depends on the new lock. ...
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