From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Carsten Aulbert <carsten.aulbert@aei.mpg.de>,
Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: Circular locking dependency warning involing xfs on 2.6.27
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 03:56:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100121085655.GA687@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B57ADB4.70002@kernel.org>
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:28:20AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is on a pretty old kernel but Carsten reports that it happens
> occassionally in a pretty large setup involving 1500+ machines (please
> feel free to fill in). This happens pretty sporadically so reporting
> it just in case this is a yet unknown problem. As I understand it,
> testing with newer kernel isn't out of question but it being a
> production environment, not a very easy thing.
I think the one below is gone. We still have a very similar one that
can only happen during unmount, and we're trying to sort that one at the
VFS level (see the current thread on -fsdevel)
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2010-01-21 1:28 Circular locking dependency warning involing xfs on 2.6.27 Tejun Heo
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