From: Ted Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: writeback: bad unlock balance detected in 3.5-rc1
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 22:38:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120609023804.GC14153@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120608233728.GA7691@localhost>
On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 08:37:28AM +0900, Fengguang Wu wrote:
>
> Here is the updated changelog:
>
> writeback: Fix lock imbalance in writeback_sb_inodes()
>
> Fix bug introduced by 169ebd90. We have to have wb_list_lock locked when
> restarting writeback loop after having waited for inode writeback.
>
> Bug description by Ted Tso:
>
> I can reproduce this fairly easily by using ext4 w/o a journal, running
> under KVM with 1024megs memory, with fsstress (xfstests #13):
Not that it matters that much, but I typo'ed the description; sorry
about that. The KVM only had 1024k of memory....
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-09 2:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-08 14:36 writeback: bad unlock balance detected in 3.5-rc1 Theodore Ts'o
2012-06-08 15:07 ` Jan Kara
2012-06-08 15:45 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-06-08 15:51 ` Sedat Dilek
2012-06-08 16:00 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-06-08 20:50 ` Jan Kara
2012-06-11 11:21 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-06-11 11:21 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-06-08 20:28 ` Ted Ts'o
2012-06-08 23:37 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-06-09 2:38 ` Ted Ts'o [this message]
2012-06-09 11:07 ` Fengguang Wu
2012-06-09 11:17 ` Ted Ts'o
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