Re: Circular lock dep in btrfs triggered by shrinker

[Michal Hocko]

On Mon 22-10-18 20:22:43, David Sterba wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 03:07:26AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> > I hit the below circular locking dependency. Seems like the assumption made in
> > 712e36c5f2a7fa56 ("btrfs: use GFP_KERNEL in btrfs_alloc_inode") either isn't
> > true, or has since changed?
> 
> I think it must have been there from the beginning. There were reports
> of this lockdep warning like the below and IIRC a few more
> (https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180627120523.GA2287@xxxxxxx), but without a
> resolution.
> 
> Incidentally, there was a fix that's now in the 4.20 pull and only after
> I had seen your report I realized that it was the fix for the warning:
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kdave/linux.git/commit/?h=for-4.20-part1&id=84de76a2fb217dc1b6bc2965cc397d1648aa1404
> 
> It disables the filesystem allocations using the memalloc_nofs mechanism
> around free space inode allocation, while my original patch expected
> only regular inodes created by VFS.

Wouldn't it be better/possible to take the mark the scope at the higher
level where you take the trans handle?
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Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs