Re: LOCKDEP: 3.9-rc1: mount.nfs/4272 still has locks held!

From: Tejun Heo
Date: Tue Mar 05 2013 - 20:16:33 EST


On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 08:05:07PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote:
> If it's really just a 2-line patch to try_to_freeze(), could it just be
> carried out-of-tree by people that are specifically working on tracking
> down these problems?
>
> But I don't have strong feelings about it--as long as it doesn't result
> in the same known issues getting reported again and again....

Agreed, I don't think a Kconfig option is justified for this. If this
is really important, annotate broken paths so that it doesn't trigger
spuriously; otherwise, please just remove it.

Thanks.

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tejun
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