> Andrew Morton writes:
> > Dawson Engler <engler@csl.stanford.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > BTW, are there known deadlocks (harmless or otherwise)? Debugging
> > > the checker is a bit hard since false negatives are silent...
> >
> > Known deadlocks tend to get fixed. But I am surprised that you did not
> > encounter more of them.
> >
> > btw, the filesystem transaction operations can be treated as sleeping locks.
> > So for ext3, journal_start()/journal_stop() may, for lock-ranking purposes,
> > be treated in the same way as taking and releasing a per-superblock
> > semaphore. Other filesystems probably have similar restrictions.
> >
>
> So are page-fault and memory allocation events, because thread
> blocks on them, and deadlocks involving servicing page fault or memory
> laundering have definitely been seen.
Do you mean calls to copy_*_user and kmalloc(GFP_WAIT) or did you have
something else in mind as well?
> We have (incomplete) description of kernel lock ordering, which is
> centered around reiser4 locks, but also includes some core kernel stuff.
>
> It is available at
>
> http://www.namesys.com/v4/lock-ordering.dot --- source for Bell-Labs' dot(1)
> http://www.namesys.com/v4/lock-ordering.ps --- postscript output, produced from the .dot source
Wonderful; thanks!
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