When I was performing some operations on NFS, I got below error on server
side.

  =============================================
  [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ]
  2.6.19-prep #1
  ---------------------------------------------
  nfsd4/3525 is trying to acquire lock:
   (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c0611e5a>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24

  but task is already holding lock:
   (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c0611e5a>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24

  other info that might help us debug this:
  2 locks held by nfsd4/3525:
   #0:  (client_mutex){--..}, at: [<c0611e5a>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
   #1:  (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c0611e5a>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24

  stack backtrace:
   [<c04051ed>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x58/0x16a
   [<c04057fa>] show_trace+0xd/0x10
   [<c0405913>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
   [<c043b6f1>] __lock_acquire+0x778/0x99c
   [<c043be86>] lock_acquire+0x4b/0x6d
   [<c0611ceb>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xbc/0x20a
   [<c0611e5a>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
   [<c047fd7e>] vfs_rmdir+0x76/0xf8
   [<f94b7ce9>] nfsd4_clear_clid_dir+0x2c/0x41 [nfsd]
   [<f94b7de9>] nfsd4_remove_clid_dir+0xb1/0xe8 [nfsd]
   [<f94b307b>] laundromat_main+0x9b/0x1c3 [nfsd]
   [<c04333d6>] run_workqueue+0x7a/0xbb
   [<c0433d0b>] worker_thread+0xd2/0x107
   [<c0436285>] kthread+0xc3/0xf2
   [<c0402005>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
  ===================================================================

Cause for this problem was,2 successive mutex_lock calls on 2 diffrent inodes ,as shown below

	static int
	nfsd4_clear_clid_dir(struct dentry *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
	{
	        int status;

	        /* For now this directory should already be empty, but we empty it of
        	 * any regular files anyway, just in case the directory was created by
	         * a kernel from the future.... */
        	nfsd4_list_rec_dir(dentry, nfsd4_remove_clid_file);
	        mutex_lock(&dir->d_inode->i_mutex);
	        status = vfs_rmdir(dir->d_inode, dentry);
	...

	int vfs_rmdir(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
	{
	        int error = may_delete(dir, dentry, 1);

	        if (error)
	                return error;

	        if (!dir->i_op || !dir->i_op->rmdir)
        	        return -EPERM;

	        DQUOT_INIT(dir);

	        mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
	...

So I have developed the patch to overcome this problem.
Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Call sysdev_class_unregister() on failure in edac_sysfs_memctrl_setup()
and decrease identation level for clear logic.
Acked-by: Doug Thompson <norsk5@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This just ignore the remaining pages, and remove unneeded unlock_pages().
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Acked-by: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This just ignore the remaining pages.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This just ignore the remaining pages, and will fix a forgot put_pages_list().
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Current read_pages() assume ->readpages() frees the passed pages.

This patch free the pages in ->read_pages(), if those were remaining in the
pages_list.  So, readpages() just can ignore the remaining pages in
pages_list.
Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Steven French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Fix module_param/sysfs file permission typo.

Clean up MODULE_PARM_DESC strings to avoid fancy (and incorrect)
formatting.

Fix header includes for lkdtm; add some needed ones, remove unused ones;
and fix this gcc warning:
drivers/misc/lkdtm.c:150: warning: 'struct buffer_head' declared inside parameter list
drivers/misc/lkdtm.c:150: warning: its scope is only this definition or declaration, which is probably not what you want
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Ankita Garg <ankita@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

ufs2 fails to mount on x86_64, claiming bad magic.  This is because
ufs_super_block_third's fs_un1 member is padded out by 4 bytes for 8-byte
alignment, pushing down the rest of the struct.

Forcing this to be packed solves it.  I took a quick look over other
on-disk structures and didn't immediately find other problems.  I was able
to mount & ls a populated ufs2 filesystem w/ this change.
Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
Cc: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Un-needed add-store operation wastes a few bytes.
8 bytes wasted with -O2, on a ppc.
Signed-off-by: nkalmala <nkalmala@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Fix two issuses related to ipc_ids->entries freeing.

1. When freeing ipc namespace we need to free entries allocated
   with ipc_init_ids().

2. When removing old entries in grow_ary() ipc_rcu_putref()
   may be called on entries set to &ids->nullentry earlier in
   ipc_init_ids().
   This is almost impossible without namespaces, but with
   them this situation becomes possible.

Found during OpenVZ testing after obvious leaks in beancounters.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Kirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Move journal-api into filesystems.tmpl as a Chapter.  Applies on top of the
previous docbook: make a filesystems book patch.

Remove trailing whitespace from journal-api chapter.  Align some of the
tags.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Correct a few comments in kernel-doc Doc and source files.

(akpm: note: the patch removes a non-ascii character and might have to be
applied by hand..)
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

75833345 fixes the not checked copy_to_user
return value of compat_sys_pselect7.  I ran into this too because of an old
source tree, but my fix would look quite a bit different to Andi's fix.

The reason is that the compat function IMHO should behave the very same as
the non-compat function if possible.  Since sys_pselect7 does not return
-EFAULT in this specific case, change the compat code so it behaves like
sys_pselect7.

Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This allows udev to do something intelligent when an array becomes
available.
Acked-by: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Neil's xterms are too wide.

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

I missed a pointer dereference in this kmalloc result check.
Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  pci_ids.h: Add NVIDIA PCI ID

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
  [CIFS] report rename failure when target file is locked by Windows
  [CIFS] Allow null user connections
  [CIFS] Fix readdir breakage when blocksize set too small

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

Signed-off-by: Peer Chen <pchen@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

Signed-off-by: Peer Chen <pchen@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband:
  RDMA/addr: Use client registration to fix module unload race
  IB/mthca: Fix MAD extended header format for MAD_IFC firmware command
  IB/uverbs: Return sq_draining value in query_qp response
  IB/amso1100: Fix incorrect pr_debug()
  IB/amso1100: Use dma_alloc_coherent() instead of kmalloc/dma_map_single
  IB/ehca: Fix eHCA driver compilation for uniprocessor
  RDMA/cma: rdma_bind_addr() leaks a cma_dev reference count
  IB/iser: Start connection after enabling iSER

Require registration with ib_addr module to prevent caller from
unloading while a callback is in progress.
Signed-off-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>

* 'upstream' of git://ftp.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus:
  [MIPS] Do not use -msym32 option for modules.
  [MIPS] Don't use R10000 llsc workaround version for all llsc-full processors.
  [MIPS] Ocelot G: Fix : "CURRENTLY_UNUSED" is not defined warning.
  [MIPS] Fix warning about init_initrd() call if !CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD.
  [MIPS] IP27: Allow SMP ;-)  Another changeset messed up by patch.
  [MIPS] Fix merge screwup by patch(1)
  Revert "[MIPS] Make SPARSEMEM selectable on QEMU."

On 64-bit kernel, modules are loaded into XKSEG for now.  While XKSEG
address is not a sign-extended 32-bit address, we can not use -msym32
option.
Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Found and original patch by bile@landofbile.com.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

  CC      arch/mips/momentum/ocelot_g/gt-irq.o
arch/mips/momentum/ocelot_g/gt-irq.c:30:5: warning: "CURRENTLY_UNUSED" is not defined
arch/mips/momentum/ocelot_g/gt-irq.c:199:5: warning: "CURRENTLY_UNUSED" is not defined
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

When lmo commit 4ef893e0515e8bf336dfbd200884f244869fbb43 was merged to
kernel.org as e73ea273 patch happily
applied the IP27 segment to IP22.  f63f36c18b11e166d0f362ac04dbcd7e6ea23f9e
did fix the effects partially - and with a wrong log message.  Now fixed
for real (tm).
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Patch happily applied an Ocelot G patch to Ocelot C when merging
linux-mips.org changeset 91ee9a801e65d2981dfe327d2519c7fc6ab02e6b into
kernel.org as 6ceb6d3a.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

This reverts commit 31473747.

Another amazing example of patch(1) messing up - lmo changeset
66e8560d11d02bcadc261498471831a6375ad046 was merged twice to kernel.org
and ended up doing this rubbish job.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shaggy/jfs-2.6:
  jfs: Add splice support

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [NETFILTER]: silence a warning in ebtables
  [IPV6]: File the fingerprints off ah6->spi/esp6->spi
  [TCP]: Set default congestion control when no sysctl.
  [TIPC] net/tipc/port.c: fix NULL dereference

* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6:
  [SPARC64]: Fix futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic implementation.

Fixes Samba bugzilla bug # 4182

Rename by handle failures (retry after rename by path) were not
being returned back.
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>

* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  Revert "[PATCH] Add 0x7110 piix to ata_piix.c"
  [libata] sata_nv: Add PCI IDs
  [PATCH] ahci: fix status register check in ahci_softreset

This reverts commit f833229c:

According to reviewers and the lspci data provided in commit message
itself, PCI ID 0x7110 should not have been added to ata_piix.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c: In function 'ebt_dev_check':
net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:89: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type

So make the char* a const char * and the warning is gone.
Signed-off-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

I copied the logic from ll/sc arch implementations, but that
was wrong and makes no sense at all.  Just do a straight
compare-exchange instruction, just like x86.

Based upon bug reports from Dennis Gilmore and Fabio Massimo.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

In theory these are opaque 32bit values.  However, we end up
allocating them sequentially in host-endian and stick unchanged
on the wire.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>