From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
"bugme-daemon@kernel-bugs.osdl.org"
<bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alex@hausnet.ru
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7495] New: Kernel periodically hangs.
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:22:19 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1584.1163416939@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17752.5086.510190.316725@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:
> it would appear that in:
> if (inode->i_sb && inode->i_sb->s_op->clear_inode)
> inode->i_sb->s_op->clear_inode(inode);
>
> inode->i_sb->s_op is NULL.
Agreed.
> This tends to suggest that generic_shutdown_super isn't releasing all inodes
> before the superblock gets destroyed.
>
> I cannot see how this could be happening
Perhaps sb->s_root == NULL? That would permit most of generic_shutdown_super()
to be bypassed, including the check that all the inodes have been consumed.
David
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-13 11:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200611111129.kABBTWgp014081@fire-2.osdl.org>
2006-11-11 18:00 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 7495] New: Kernel periodically hangs Andrew Morton
2006-11-11 18:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-11 18:19 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-12 11:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 12:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-12 13:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 13:37 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-12 13:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 14:10 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-12 14:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 15:21 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-12 15:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 15:59 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-11-12 16:07 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 16:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-12 21:45 ` Dave Jones
2006-11-13 2:07 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-12 19:18 ` Ingo Oeser
2006-11-12 19:34 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-12 20:32 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-13 6:42 ` Neil Brown
2006-11-13 11:22 ` David Howells [this message]
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