Re: [btrfs/rt] lockdep false positive

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Mon Jan 23 2017 - 00:23:42 EST


On Sun, 2017-01-22 at 18:45 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sun, 2017-01-22 at 09:46 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > Greetings btrfs/lockdep wizards,
> >
> > RT trees have trouble with the BTRFS lockdep positive avoidance lock
> > class dance (see disk-io.c). Seems the trouble is due to RT not having
> > a means of telling lockdep that its rwlocks are recursive for read by
> > the lock owner only, combined with the BTRFS lock class dance assuming
> > that read_lock() is annotated rwlock_acquire_read(), which RT cannot
> > do, as that would be a big fat lie.
> >
> > Creating a rt_read_lock_shared() for btrfs_clear_lock_blocking_rw() did
> > indeed make lockdep happy as a clam for test purposes. (hm, submitting
> > that would be excellent way to replenish frozen shark supply:)
> >
> > Ideas?
>
> Hrm. The below seems to work fine, but /me strongly suspects that if
> it were this damn trivial, the issue would be long dead.

(iow, did I merely spell '2' as '3' vs creating the annotation I want)