Slab destructors were no longer supported after Christoph's
c59def9f change. They've been
BUGs for both slab and slub, and slob never supported them
either.

This rips out support for the dtor pointer from kmem_cache_create()
completely and fixes up every single callsite in the kernel (there were
about 224, not including the slab allocator definitions themselves,
or the documentation references).
Signed-off-by: NPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>

Fix this:

fs/block_dev.c: In function 'bd_claim_by_disk':
fs/block_dev.c:970: warning: 'found' may be used uninitialized in this function

and given that free_bd_holder() now needs free(NULL)-is-legal behaviour, we
can simplify bd_release_from_kobject().

Cc: Bjorn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes-kernel@saeurebad.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Replace some funky codepaths in fs/block_dev.c with cleaner versions of the
affected places.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix return value]
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Weiner <hannes-kernel@saeurebad.de>
Cc: Bjorn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

fs/block_dev.c: Use list_for_each_entry() instead of list_for_each()
in nr_blockdev_pages()
Signed-off-by: NMatthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

They can use generic_file_splice_read() instead. Since sys_sendfile() now
prefers that, there should be no change in behaviour.
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>

SLAB_CTOR_CONSTRUCTOR is always specified. No point in checking it.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Cc: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Replace (n & (n-1)) in the context of power of 2 checks with is_power_of_2
Signed-off-by: Nvignesh babu <vignesh.babu@wipro.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

I have never seen a use of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL.  It is only supported by
SLAB.

I think its purpose was to have a callback after an object has been freed
to verify that the state is the constructor state again?  The callback is
performed before each freeing of an object.

I would think that it is much easier to check the object state manually
before the free.  That also places the check near the code object
manipulation of the object.

Also the SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL callback is only performed if the kernel was
compiled with SLAB debugging on.  If there would be code in a constructor
handling SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL then it would have to be conditional on
SLAB_DEBUG otherwise it would just be dead code.  But there is no such code
in the kernel.  I think SLUB_DEBUG_INITIAL is too problematic to make real
use of, difficult to understand and there are easier ways to accomplish the
same effect (i.e.  add debug code before kfree).

There is a related flag SLAB_CTOR_VERIFY that is frequently checked to be
clear in fs inode caches.  Remove the pointless checks (they would even be
pointless without removeal of SLAB_DEBUG_INITIAL) from the fs constructors.

This is the last slab flag that SLUB did not support.  Remove the check for
unimplemented flags from SLUB.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Remove duplicate work in kill_bdev().

It currently invalidates and then truncates the bdev's mapping.
invalidate_mapping_pages() will opportunistically remove pages from the
mapping.  And truncate_inode_pages() will forcefully remove all pages.

The only thing truncate doesn't do is flush the bh lrus.  So do that
explicitly.  This avoids (very unlikely) but possible invalid lookup
results if the same bdev is quickly re-issued.

It also will prevent extreme kernel latencies which are observed when
blockdevs which have a large amount of pagecache are unmounted, by avoiding
invalidate_mapping_pages() on that path.  invalidate_mapping_pages() has no
cond_resched (it can be called under spinlock), whereas truncate_inode_pages()
has one.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: restore nrpages==0 optimisation]
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Remove the destroy_dirty_buffers argument from invalidate_bdev(), it hasn't
been used in 6 years (so akpm says).

find * -name \*.[ch] | xargs grep -l invalidate_bdev |
while read file; do
	quilt add $file;
	sed -ie 's/invalidate_bdev(\([^,]*\),[^)]*)/invalidate_bdev(\1)/g' $file;
done
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

>=============================================
>[ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
>2.6.19-1.2909.fc7 #1
>---------------------------------------------
>anaconda/587 is trying to acquire lock:
> (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c05fb380>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
>
>but task is already holding lock:
> (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c05fb380>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
>
>other info that might help us debug this:
>1 lock held by anaconda/587:
> #0:  (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c05fb380>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
>
>stack backtrace:
> [<c0405812>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f
> [<c0405db2>] show_trace+0x12/0x14
> [<c0405e36>] dump_stack+0x16/0x18
> [<c043bd84>] __lock_acquire+0x116/0xa09
> [<c043c960>] lock_acquire+0x56/0x6f
> [<c05fb1fa>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xe5/0x24a
> [<c05fb380>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
> [<c04d82fb>] blkdev_ioctl+0x600/0x76d
> [<c04946b1>] block_ioctl+0x1b/0x1f
> [<c047ed5a>] do_ioctl+0x22/0x68
> [<c047eff2>] vfs_ioctl+0x252/0x265
> [<c047f04e>] sys_ioctl+0x49/0x63
> [<c0404070>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Annotate BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION's bd_mutex locking and add a little comment
clarifying the bd_mutex locking, because I confused myself and initially
thought the lock order was wrong too.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch is inspired by Arjan's "Patch series to mark struct
file_operations and struct inode_operations const".

Compile tested with gcc & sparse.
Signed-off-by: NJosef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Andrew Vasquez is reporting as-iosched oopses and a 65% throughput
slowdown due to the recent special-casing of direct-io against
blockdevs.  We don't know why either of these things are occurring.

The patch minimally reverts us back to the 2.6.19 code for a 2.6.20
release.

Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>
Cc: Ken Chen <kenchen@google.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

For large size DIO that needs multiple bio, one full page worth of data was
lost at the boundary of bio's maximum sector or segment limits.  After a
bio is full and got submitted.  The outer while (nbytes) { ...  } loop will
allocate a new bio and just march on to index into next page.  It just
forgets about the page that bio_add_page() rejected when previous bio is
full.  Fix it by put the rejected page back to pvec so we pick it up again
for the next bio.
Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

size_t is unsigned.  IO errors aren't getting through.

Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Revert bd_mount_mutex back to a semaphore so that xfs_freeze -f /mnt/newtest;
xfs_freeze -u /mnt/newtest works safely and doesn't produce lockdep warnings.

(XFS unlocks the semaphore from a different task, by design.  The mutex
code warns about this)
Signed-off-by: NDave Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Implement block device specific .direct_IO method instead of going through
generic direct_io_worker for block device.

direct_io_worker() is fairly complex because it needs to handle O_DIRECT on
file system, where it needs to perform block allocation, hole detection,
extents file on write, and tons of other corner cases.  The end result is
that it takes tons of CPU time to submit an I/O.

For block device, the block allocation is much simpler and a tight triple
loop can be written to iterate each iovec and each page within the iovec in
order to construct/prepare bio structure and then subsequently submit it to
the block layer.  This significantly speeds up O_D on block device.

[akpm@osdl.org: small speedup]
Signed-off-by: NKen Chen <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch changes struct file to use struct path instead of having
independent pointers to struct dentry and struct vfsmount, and converts all
users of f_{dentry,vfsmnt} in fs/ to use f_path.{dentry,mnt}.

Additionally, it adds two #define's to make the transition easier for users of
the f_dentry and f_vfsmnt.
Signed-off-by: NJosef "Jeff" Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Don't leak a ->bd_part_count when the partition open fails with -ENXIO.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Now that the nesting in blkdev_{get,put} is simpler, adding mutex_lock_nested
is trivial.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

When we open (actually blkdev_get) a partition we need to also open (get) the
whole device that holds the partition.  The involves some limited recursion.
This patch tries to simplify some aspects of this.

As well as opening the whole device, we need to increment ->bd_part_count when
a partition is opened (this is used by rescan_partitions to avoid a rescan if
any partition is active, as that would be confusing).

The main change this patch makes is to move the inc/dec of bd_part_count into
blkdev_{get,put} for the whole rather than doing it in blkdev_{get,put} for
the partition.

More specifically, we introduce __blkdev_get and __blkdev_put which do exactly
what blkdev_{get,put} did, only with an extra "for_part" argument
(blkget_{get,put} then call the __ version with a '0' for the extra argument).

If for_part is 1, then the blkdev is being get(put) because a partition is
being opened(closed) for the first(last) time, and so bd_part_count should be
updated (on success).  The particular advantage of pushing this function down
is that the bd_mutex lock (which is needed to update bd_part_count) is already
held at the lower level.

Note that this slightly changes the semantics of bd_part_count.  Instead of
updating it whenever a partition is opened or released, it is now only updated
on the first open or last release.  This is an adequate semantic as it is only
ever tested for "== 0".

Having introduced these functions we remove the current bd_part_count updates
from do_open (which is really the body of blkdev_get) and call
__blkdev_get(...  1).  Similarly in blkget_put we remove the old bd_part_count
updates and call __blkget_put(..., 1).  This call is moved to the end of
__blkdev_put to avoid nested locks of bd_mutex.

Finally the mutex_lock on whole->bd_mutex in do_open can be removed.  It was
only really needed to protect bd_part_count, and that is now managed (and
protected) within the recursive call.

The observation that bd_part_count is central to the locking issues, and the
modifications to create __blkdev_put are from Peter Zijlstra.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The extra call to get_gendisk is not good.  It causes a ->probe and possible
module load before it is really appropriate to do this.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NNeil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Use the gendisk partition number to set a lock class.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Remove the old complex and crufty bd_mutex annotation.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache.

The patch was generated using the following script:

	#!/bin/sh
	#
	# Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources.
	#

	set -e

	for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do
		quilt add $file
		sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$
		mv /tmp/$$ $file
		quilt refresh
	done

The script was run like this

	sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache"
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

SLAB_KERNEL is an alias of GFP_KERNEL.
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

fs/block_dev.c: In function 'find_bd_holder':
fs/block_dev.c:666: warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast
fs/block_dev.c:669: warning: return makes integer from pointer without a cast
fs/block_dev.c: In function 'add_bd_holder':
fs/block_dev.c:685: warning: unused variable 'tmp'
fs/block_dev.c: In function 'bd_claim_by_kobject':
fs/block_dev.c:773: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
Acked-by: NJun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

add_bd_holder() is called from bd_claim_by_kobject to put a given struct
bd_holder in the list if there is no matching entry.

There are 3 possible results of add_bd_holder():
  1. there is no matching entry and add the given one to the list
  2. there is matching entry, so just increment reference count of
     the existing one
  3. something failed during its course

1 and 2 are successful cases.  But for case 2, someone has to free the
unused struct bd_holder.

The current code frees it inside of add_bd_holder and returns same value
0 for both cases 1 and 2.  However, it's natural and less error-prone if
caller frees it since it's allocated by the caller.
Signed-off-by: NJun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This fixes bd_claim_by_kobject to release bdev correctly in case that
bd_claim succeeds but following add_bd_holder fails.
Signed-off-by: NJun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

blkdev_open() calls bc_acquire() to get a struct block_device.  Since
bc_acquire() may return NULL when system is out of memory an appropriate
check is required.
Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch cleans up generic_file_*_read/write() interfaces.  Christoph
Hellwig gave me the idea for this clean ups.

In a nutshell, all filesystems should set .aio_read/.aio_write methods and use
do_sync_read/ do_sync_write() as their .read/.write methods.  This allows us
to cleanup all variants of generic_file_* routines.

Final available interfaces:

generic_file_aio_read() - read handler
generic_file_aio_write() - write handler
generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - no lock write handler

__generic_file_aio_write_nolock() - internal worker routine
Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch removes readv() and writev() methods and replaces them with
aio_read()/aio_write() methods.
Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch vectorizes aio_read() and aio_write() methods to prepare for
collapsing all aio & vectored operations into one interface - which is
aio_read()/aio_write().
Signed-off-by: NBadari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NChristoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Michael Holzheu <HOLZHEU@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Move __invalidate_device() from fs/inode.c to fs/block_dev.c so that it can
more easily be disabled when the block layer is disabled.
Signed-Off-By: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Dissociate the generic_writepages() function from the mpage stuff, moving its
declaration to linux/mm.h and actually emitting a full implementation into
mm/page-writeback.c.

The implementation is a partial duplicate of mpage_writepages() with all BIO
references removed.

It is used by NFS to do writeback.
Signed-Off-By: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

Create a new header file, fs/internal.h, for common definitions local to the
sources in the fs/ directory.

Move extern definitions that should be in header files from fs/*.c to
fs/internal.h or other main header files where they span directories.
Signed-Off-By: NDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>

In the case below we are locking the whole disk not a partition.  This
change simply brings the code in line with the piece above where when we
are the 'first' opener, and we are a partition.
Signed-off-by: NJason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Acked-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Check driver layer errors.

Fix from: "Jun'ichi Nomura" <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>

In blockdevc-check-errors.patch, add_bd_holder() is modified to return error
values when some of its operation failed.  Among them, it returns -EEXIST when
a given bd_holder object already exists in the list.

However, in this case, the function completed its work successfully and need
no action by its caller other than freeing unused bd_holder object.  So I
think it's better to return success after freeing by itself.

Otherwise, bd_claim-ing with same claim pointer will fail.
Typically, lvresize will fails with following message:
  device-mapper: reload ioctl failed: Invalid argument
and you'll see messages like below in kernel log:
  device-mapper: table: 254:13: linear: dm-linear: Device lookup failed
  device-mapper: ioctl: error adding target to table

Similarly, it should not add bd_holder to the list if either one of symlinking
fails.  I don't have a test case for this to happen but it should cause
dereference of freed pointer.

If a matching bd_holder is found in bd_holder_list, add_bd_holder() completes
its job by just incrementing the reference count.  In this case, it should be
considered as success but it used to return 'fail' to let the caller free
temporary bd_holder.  Fixed it to return success and free given object by
itself.

Also, if either one of symlinking fails, the bd_holder should not be added to
the list so that it can be discarded later.  Otherwise, the caller will free
bd_holder which is in the list.
Signed-off-by: NJun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 07:57 +0200, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> =============================================
> [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
> ---------------------------------------------
> parted/7929 is trying to acquire lock:
>  (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c105eb8d>] __blkdev_put+0x1e/0x13c
>
> but task is already holding lock:
>  (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c105eec6>] do_open+0x72/0x3a8
>
> other info that might help us debug this:
> 1 lock held by parted/7929:
>  #0:  (&bdev->bd_mutex){--..}, at: [<c105eec6>] do_open+0x72/0x3a8
> stack backtrace:
>  [<c1003aad>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x15b
>  [<c100495f>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
>  [<c1004979>] dump_stack+0x17/0x1a
>  [<c102dee5>] __lock_acquire+0x753/0x99c
>  [<c102e3b0>] lock_acquire+0x4a/0x6a
>  [<c1204501>] mutex_lock_nested+0xc8/0x20c
>  [<c105eb8d>] __blkdev_put+0x1e/0x13c
>  [<c105ecc4>] blkdev_put+0xa/0xc
>  [<c105f18a>] do_open+0x336/0x3a8
>  [<c105f21b>] blkdev_open+0x1f/0x4c
>  [<c1057b40>] __dentry_open+0xc7/0x1aa
>  [<c1057c91>] nameidata_to_filp+0x1c/0x2e
>  [<c1057cd1>] do_filp_open+0x2e/0x35
>  [<c1057dd7>] do_sys_open+0x38/0x68
>  [<c1057e33>] sys_open+0x16/0x18
>  [<c1002845>] sysenter_past_esp+0x56/0x8d

OK, I'm having a look here; its all new to me so bear with me.

blkdev_open() calls
  do_open(bdev, ...,BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) and takes
    mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, BD_MUTEX_NORMAL)

then something fails, and we're thrown to:

out_first: where
    if (bdev != bdev->bd_contains)
      blkdev_put(bdev->bd_contains) which is
        __blkdev_put(bdev->bd_contains, BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) which does
          mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_contains->bd_mutex, BD_MUTEX_NORMAL) <--- lockdep trigger

When going to out_first, dbev->bd_contains is either bdev or whole, and
since we take the branch it must be whole. So it seems to me the
following patch would be the right one:

[akpm@osdl.org: compile fix]
Signed-off-by: NPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: NNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Teach special (recursive) locking code to the lock validator.

Effects on non-lockdep kernels:

- the introduction of the following function variants:

  extern struct block_device *open_partition_by_devnum(dev_t, unsigned);

  extern int blkdev_put_partition(struct block_device *);

  static int
  blkdev_get_whole(struct block_device *bdev, mode_t mode, unsigned flags);

 which on non-lockdep are the same as open_by_devnum(), blkdev_put()
 and blkdev_get().

- a subclass parameter to do_open(). [unused on non-lockdep]

- a subclass parameter to __blkdev_put(), which is a new internal
  function for the main blkdev_put*() functions. [parameter unused
  on non-lockdep kernels, except for two sanity check WARN_ON()s]

these functions carry no semantical difference - they only express
object dependencies towards the lockdep subsystem.
Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>