From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pl0-f71.google.com (mail-pl0-f71.google.com [209.85.160.71]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5EC96B005A for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:48:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-pl0-f71.google.com with SMTP id z2-v6so10344109plk.3 for ; Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:48:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org (mail.linuxfoundation.org. [140.211.169.12]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id i188si2271802pgc.178.2018.04.10.13.48.38 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:48:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:48:37 -0700 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] writeback: safer lock nesting Message-Id: <20180410134837.d2b0f2d1cd940bb08c2bad0a@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20180410063357.GS21835@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <201804080259.VS5U0mKT%fengguang.wu@intel.com> <20180410005908.167976-1-gthelen@google.com> <20180410063357.GS21835@dhcp22.suse.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Michal Hocko Cc: Greg Thelen , Wang Long , Johannes Weiner , Tejun Heo , npiggin@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 08:33:57 +0200 Michal Hocko wrote: > > Reported-by: Wang Long > > Signed-off-by: Greg Thelen > > Change-Id: Ibb773e8045852978f6207074491d262f1b3fb613 > > Not a stable material IMHO Why's that? Wang Long said he's observed the deadlock three times?