Re: [LOCKING] 2.6.33-rc8 btrfs vs java

From: Chris Mason
Date: Mon Feb 15 2010 - 10:58:16 EST


On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 07:14:50PM -0500, Ed Tomlinson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Found this in my log for 2.6.33-rc8. Figgured it might be interesting since .33 is close.

The btrfs tree locking is very tricky for lockdep. I don't quite see
how you could hit this one without also deadlocking the machine, unless
it is a false positive.

So, did you deadlock the machine? ;)

-chris
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