public inbox for linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
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)

_______________________________________________
xfs mailing list
xfs@oss.sgi.com
http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs

      reply	other threads:[~2010-01-21  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-21  1:28 Circular locking dependency warning involing xfs on 2.6.27 Tejun Heo
2010-01-21  8:56 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20100121085655.GA687@infradead.org \
    --to=hch@infradead.org \
    --cc=aelder@sgi.com \
    --cc=carsten.aulbert@aei.mpg.de \
    --cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=tj@kernel.org \
    --cc=xfs@oss.sgi.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox