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From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Linda Walsh <lkml@tlinx.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-Xfs <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: Known prob: MAX_LOCK_DEPTH too low?
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:13:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1200935629.6341.9.camel@lappy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4794C7C0.8030207@tlinx.org>


On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 08:26 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 17:17 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
> >   
> >> On my x86_64 machine, I got the following message
> >> in log (kern = 2.6.23.14)
> >>
> >> Jan 16 04:08:38 Astara kernel: BUG: MAX_LOCK_DEPTH too low!
> >> Jan 16 04:08:38 Astara kernel: turning off the locking correctness 
> >> validator.
> >>
> >> Have no idea what caused it as I found the message on my console
> >> somewhat after the fact.  The system had been up over 24 hours and
> >> is still running.  System still seems 'fine' (been up 3 days now),
> >> so you can treat this as a "data point".
> >>     
> >
> > Are you perhaps an XFS user?
> >
> >   
> ----
>     Funny you should mention that...  yes.  However, there were no
> other messages that seem to indicate that the message had anything
> to do with XFS.  Nice shot in the dark.

:-), know issue, I guess I'll up the MAX_LOCK_DEPTH for the next
release. I looked at dynamically allocating that stuff, but that gets
awfully painful.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-01-21 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-19  1:17 Known prob: MAX_LOCK_DEPTH too low? Linda Walsh
2008-01-21 12:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-01-21 16:26   ` Linda Walsh
2008-01-21 17:13     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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