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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Assertion failed: atomic_read(&mp->m_active_trans)
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 07:33:46 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081204123346.GA7085@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081203213950.GX18236@disturbed>

On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 08:39:50AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 05:48:49AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > I'd rather fix it properly.
> 
> Sure, but in the mean time, I'd suggest changing it to a WARN_ON()
> rather than an ASSERT(). That way we'll continue to have ppl bug us
> about it until the VFS can support read-only remounts without racing
> correctly.

Makes sense.

> Has that work been dropped on the floor, Christoph? We've
> been holding off removing this ASSERT or adding the hack
> I did to work around the common case of the assert triggering
> based on the fact that the problem in the VFS would be fixed
> in the next release. That was the case each release since
> 2.6.25 and there doesn't seem to be much progress...

Yeah, once we got the r/o bind mounts which introduces the
infrastructure to deal with people dropped that ball and we never fixed
it.  But I just heard from Al that he's looking into some major surgery
for the remount path, which should include this in the second or third
batch.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-04 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-25  8:00 Assertion failed: atomic_read(&mp->m_active_trans) Donald Douwsma
2008-12-02  3:25 ` Lachlan McIlroy
2008-12-03 10:48   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-12-03 21:39     ` Dave Chinner
2008-12-04  5:36       ` Donald Douwsma
2008-12-04 12:33       ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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