btrfs_set_lock_blocking_write(left);
                wret = btrfs_cow_block(trans, root, left,
                                       parent, pslot - 1, &left,
-                                      BTRFS_NESTING_COW);
+                                      BTRFS_NESTING_LEFT_COW);
                if (wret) {
                        ret = wret;
                        goto enospc;
                btrfs_set_lock_blocking_write(right);
                wret = btrfs_cow_block(trans, root, right,
                                       parent, pslot + 1, &right,
-                                      BTRFS_NESTING_COW);
+                                      BTRFS_NESTING_RIGHT_COW);
                if (wret) {
                        ret = wret;
                        goto enospc;
                } else {
                        ret = btrfs_cow_block(trans, root, left, parent,
                                              pslot - 1, &left,
-                                             BTRFS_NESTING_COW);
+                                             BTRFS_NESTING_LEFT_COW);
                        if (ret)
                                wret = 1;
                        else {
                } else {
                        ret = btrfs_cow_block(trans, root, right,
                                              parent, pslot + 1,
-                                             &right, BTRFS_NESTING_COW);
+                                             &right, BTRFS_NESTING_RIGHT_COW);
                        if (ret)
                                wret = 1;
                        else {
 
        /* cow and double check */
        ret = btrfs_cow_block(trans, root, right, upper,
-                             slot + 1, &right, BTRFS_NESTING_COW);
+                             slot + 1, &right, BTRFS_NESTING_RIGHT_COW);
        if (ret)
                goto out_unlock;
 
        /* cow and double check */
        ret = btrfs_cow_block(trans, root, left,
                              path->nodes[1], slot - 1, &left,
-                             BTRFS_NESTING_COW);
+                             BTRFS_NESTING_LEFT_COW);
        if (ret) {
                /* we hit -ENOSPC, but it isn't fatal here */
                if (ret == -ENOSPC)
 
        BTRFS_NESTING_LEFT,
        BTRFS_NESTING_RIGHT,
 
+       /*
+        * When splitting we will be holding a lock on the left/right node when
+        * we need to cow that node, thus we need a new set of subclasses for
+        * these two operations.
+        */
+       BTRFS_NESTING_LEFT_COW,
+       BTRFS_NESTING_RIGHT_COW,
+
        /*
         * We are limited to MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBLCLASSES number of subclasses, so
         * add this in here and add a static_assert to keep us from going over