From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: 2.6.20 (XFS? related) crash after uptime of > 180 days during apt-get dist-upgrade on Debian Testing
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:09:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070918110957.GA5385@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070918103916.GV23367404@sgi.com>
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:39:16PM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> The i_sem leak was hitting us on sles9 - 2.6.5 base kernel - and it was fixed
> before the i_sem -> i_mutex conversion in mainline. Some time around 2.6.16,
> IIRC. Given this was a 2.6.20 kernel, there'd be an almighty kaboom if that
> bug still existed after the i_mutex conversion....
We didn't fix it before the i_mutex conversion - I saw the mutex debugging
messages after the i_mutex conversion, but didn't see the corelation.
Probably still long before 2.6.22, though.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-18 11:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-17 17:20 2.6.20 (XFS? related) crash after uptime of > 180 days during apt-get dist-upgrade on Debian Testing Justin Piszcz
2007-09-18 1:45 ` David Chinner
2007-09-18 9:20 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-18 10:39 ` David Chinner
2007-09-18 11:09 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-09-19 8:47 ` Justin Piszcz
2007-09-21 0:15 ` David Chinner
2007-09-21 8:48 ` Justin Piszcz
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