panic: knlist not locked, but should be
Kostik Belousov
kostikbel at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 17:00:33 UTC 2009
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 09:45:49AM -0700, Matthew Fleming wrote:
>
> > This appears to be an interaction with the recent changes to use
> > shared vnode locks for writes on ZFS. Hmm, I think it may be ok to
> > use a shared vnode lock for kevents on vnodes though. The vnode
> > interlock should be sufficient locking for what little work the kevent
>
> > filters do. As a quick hack for now the MNT_SHARED_WRITES() stuff
> > could avoid using shared locks 'if (!VN_KNLIST_EMPTY(vp))', but I
> > think the longer term fix is to not use the vnode locks for vnode
> kevents, but use the interlock instead.
>
> I tried (briefly) using the interlock since Isilon's vnode lock is
> cluster wide (in our 6.1 based code we got away with using Giant). This
> got me a LOR report on the interlock:
>
> /*
> * kqueue/VFS interaction
> */
> { "kqueue", &lock_class_mtx_sleep },
> { "struct mount mtx", &lock_class_mtx_sleep },
> { "vnode interlock", &lock_class_mtx_sleep },
> { NULL, NULL },
>
> since knote() will take first the list->kl_lock and then the kqueue
> lock. I didn't spend any time on it, and switched to using the vnode
> v_lock for my purposes. But someone added that lock ordering (r166421)
> for a reason.
That was me, I actually looked for the reversed order that was reported
several times on the list in 6.1-6.2 timeframe. Unfortunately, nothing
was found.
I noted in the separate letter that read filter for vnodes needs
shared vnode lock anyway.
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