Commit 36c38fb7 authored by Tejun Heo's avatar Tejun Heo
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blkcg: use trylock on blkcg_pol_mutex in blkcg_reset_stats()

During the recent conversion of cgroup to kernfs, cgroup_tree_mutex
which nests above both the kernfs s_active protection and cgroup_mutex
is added to synchronize cgroup file type operations as cgroup_mutex
needed to be grabbed from some file operations and thus can't be put
above s_active protection.

While this arrangement mostly worked for cgroup, this triggered the
following lockdep warning.

  ======================================================
  [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
  3.15.0-rc3-next-20140430-sasha-00016-g4e281fa-dirty #429 Tainted: G        W
  -------------------------------------------------------
  trinity-c173/9024 is trying to acquire lock:
  (blkcg_pol_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: blkcg_reset_stats (include/linux/spinlock.h:328 block/blk-cgroup.c:455)

  but task is already holding lock:
  (s_active#89){++++.+}, at: kernfs_fop_write (fs/kernfs/file.c:283)

  which lock already depends on the new lock.

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parent d2c2b11c
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