tree b93390a9b48f3e9438cab9f2f1f1ee6f1907bb69
parent 94bebf4d1b8e7719f0f3944c037a21cfd99a4af7
author Frederik Deweerdt <deweerdt@free.fr> 1168027473 -0800
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 1170873433 -0800

sysfs: suppress lockdep warnings

Lockdep issues the following warning:
[    9.064000] =============================================
[    9.064000] [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
[    9.064000] 2.6.20-rc3-mm1 #3
[    9.064000] ---------------------------------------------
[    9.064000] init/1 is trying to acquire lock:
[    9.064000]  (&sysfs_inode_imutex_key){--..}, at: [<c03e6afc>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f
[    9.064000]
[    9.064000] but task is already holding lock:
[    9.064000]  (&sysfs_inode_imutex_key){--..}, at: [<c03e6afc>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f
[    9.065000]
[    9.065000] other info that might help us debug this:
[    9.065000] 2 locks held by init/1:
[    9.065000]  #0:  (tty_mutex){--..}, at: [<c03e6afc>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f
[    9.065000]  #1:  (&sysfs_inode_imutex_key){--..}, at: [<c03e6afc>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f
[    9.065000]
[    9.065000] stack backtrace:
[    9.065000]  [<c010390d>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x30
[    9.066000]  [<c0103935>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
[    9.066000]  [<c0103a2f>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18
[    9.066000]  [<c0138cb8>] print_deadlock_bug+0xb9/0xc3
[    9.066000]  [<c0138d17>] check_deadlock+0x55/0x5a
[    9.066000]  [<c013a953>] __lock_acquire+0x371/0xbf0
[    9.066000]  [<c013b7a9>] lock_acquire+0x69/0x83
[    9.066000]  [<c03e6b7e>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x75/0x2d1
[    9.066000]  [<c03e6afc>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f
[    9.066000]  [<c01b249c>] sysfs_drop_dentry+0xb1/0x133
[    9.066000]  [<c01b25d1>] sysfs_hash_and_remove+0xb3/0x142
[    9.066000]  [<c01b30ed>] sysfs_remove_file+0xd/0x10
[    9.067000]  [<c02849e0>] device_remove_file+0x23/0x2e
[    9.067000]  [<c02850b2>] device_del+0x188/0x1e6
[    9.067000]  [<c028511b>] device_unregister+0xb/0x15
[    9.067000]  [<c0285318>] device_destroy+0x9c/0xa9
[    9.067000]  [<c0261431>] vcs_remove_sysfs+0x1c/0x3b
[    9.067000]  [<c0267a08>] con_close+0x5e/0x6b
[    9.067000]  [<c02598f2>] release_dev+0x4c4/0x6e5
[    9.067000]  [<c0259faa>] tty_release+0x12/0x1c
[    9.067000]  [<c0174872>] __fput+0x177/0x1a0
[    9.067000]  [<c01746f5>] fput+0x3b/0x41
[    9.068000]  [<c0172ee1>] filp_close+0x36/0x65
[    9.068000]  [<c0172f73>] sys_close+0x63/0xa4
[    9.068000]  [<c0102a96>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x99
[    9.068000]  =======================

This is due to sysfs_hash_and_remove() holding dir->d_inode->i_mutex
before calling sysfs_drop_dentry() which calls orphan_all_buffers()
which in turn takes node->i_mutex.

Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>