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Commit b7be019e authored by Aneesh Kumar K.V's avatar Aneesh Kumar K.V Committed by Theodore Ts'o
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ext4: Fix lockdep recursive locking warning



In ext4_mb_init_group(), if the filesystem block size is less than
PAGE_SIZE/2, the code tries to grab alloc_sem for multiple block
groups in a loop.  We need to allow for this by using
down_write_nested() and passing in the loop index as a lock subclass
number.  This works because no other code path needs to take multiple
alloc_sem's.  Note that lockdep will fail for filesystem blocksize
smaller than to PAGE_SIZE/16k.  (e.g., a 1k filesystem blocksize with
a 32k page size, or a 2k filesystem blocksize with a 64k blocksize,
etc.)

Signed-off-by: default avatarAneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatar"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
parent 7a2fcbf7
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