Re: Oops and Panics in 2.6.21.1, 2.6.20.6 and 2.6.19.2

[Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>]

Hello,

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 16 May 2007 09:24:54 +0900 Clemens Schwaighofer <cs@tequila.co.jp> wrote:
> 
>> I have re-occurring oopses and panics in those above kernels. The error
>> is always the same. I have the last Kernel Panic as a picture here:
>>
>> http://dev.tequila.jp/clemens/R0010172.JPG
>>
>> The oops have the same error style like this Panic. I tried to capture
>> one, but right after copying it into vim, I got a Panic. So next time I
>> try to.
>>
>> I think it started with 2.6.19.2, I cannot remember I had any of those
>> problems before. The box can work fine for about a week or more, or it
>> looks up several times a day. I run a memtest for 10 h, but I had no errors.
> 
> shrink_dcache_memory->...sysfs_d_iput->BUG
> 
>                 BUG_ON(sd->s_dentry != dentry);
> 
> a number of people have hit that, on and off.

Yeah, I've been seeing that one.  It should have been fixed with the big
fat patchset.

> We were close to having a fix, I think, but then we decided that great
> chunks of sysfs needed rewriting and I believe that we believe that this
> great rewrite will fix this bug.

How were we gonna fix it?  If it isn't too complex, I can cook up a
patch for -stable series.  The safest approach I can think of is making
dentries for attributes unreclaimable but those are made reclaimable for
good reasons.  :-(

Thanks.

-- 
tejun