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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for July 7
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:53:45 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100714175345.0721abb7.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100715004639.GG30737@dastard>

On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:46:39 +1000
Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:27:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:45:13 +1000
> > Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Andrew, Al,
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:20:42 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Bug is still there.  Reverting ""Make ->drop_inode() just return
> > > > whether inode needs to be dropped" makes it go away.
> > > > 
> > > > Al, please don't just dump crap in linux-next and then ignore bug reports. 
> > > > People are trying to get work done here.
> > > 
> > > I will revert that commit in linux-next today if it is still there (and
> > > not fixed).
> > 
> > Reverting the patch didn't help - the patch moved the BUG_ON() from
> > generic_delete_inode() into __iput_final().  With the patch reverted
> > the kernel still goes BUG over the same test in generic_delete_inode().
> > 
> > It could be that the bug was caused by fs-writeback.c changes.  David,
> > do you have time to take a look at this?
> 
> I'll have a look at it. 

Thanks.

> What filesystem(s) are you seeing this on?

ext3 at least.

> Any particular workload that triggers it?

Booting FC6 :( I get an enormous storm of these things.




whee, progress!

With Rusty's patch for the modules bug, and reverting Greg
Vandal-Hartman's "driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED" and
deleting the BUG_ON from generic_delete_inode(), I have a login prompt!
Admittedly I don't have any networking any more, but that seems a
minor quibble.

What a clusterfsck.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-15  0:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-07  6:55 linux-next: Tree for July 7 Stephen Rothwell
2010-07-07 23:20 ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-07 23:41 ` [PATCH -next] IR: jvc-decoder needs BITREVERSE Randy Dunlap
2010-07-08  0:21 ` linux-next: Tree for July 7 Andrew Morton
2010-07-14 22:20   ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-14 23:45     ` Stephen Rothwell
2010-07-15  0:27       ` Andrew Morton
2010-07-15  0:46         ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-15  0:53           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-07-15  2:12             ` Dave Chinner
2010-07-15  7:18               ` Dave Chinner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-07-07  7:25 Stephen Rothwell
2009-07-07  6:34 Stephen Rothwell

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