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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@novell.com>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: NULL inode->i_mapping in generic_sync_sb_inodes
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:15:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x497hv7tke4.fsf@segfault.boston.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091007124327.GT30316@wotan.suse.de> (Nick Piggin's message of "Wed, 7 Oct 2009 14:43:27 +0200")

Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> writes:

>> hch mentioned that it would be good to instrument to what file system
>> the inode belonged.  Anything else you'd like to look at?
>
> Not too sure. I guess i_state. Maybe you could take s_umount lock
> and see if it is still mounted?
>
> Actually most useful will be to find all places where i_mapping is
> set to NULL, and record in the inode some callchain for the last
> site which set i_mapping to NULL. Dump this stack when you hit the
> bug.

Well, I can't find a single place where i_mapping is set to NULL.  ;-)
I'll see what I can dig up.

Cheers,
Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-07 13:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <4ACC9E8A0200008A000439B0@novprvlin0050.provo.novell.com>
2009-10-07 12:05 ` NULL inode->i_mapping in generic_sync_sb_inodes Jeff Moyer
2009-10-07 12:43   ` Nick Piggin
2009-10-07 13:15     ` Jeff Moyer [this message]
2009-10-06 13:48 Jeff Moyer

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