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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Martin Hamrle <martin.hamrle@nangu.tv>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [2.6.32] scheduling while atomic
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 12:02:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101102160201.GA924@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101102001244.GP2715@dastard>

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 11:12:44AM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> With a trace like that, it's almost certain that you've blown
> the stack and that is why the system is crashing. Can you turn on
> stack depth checking (might require a kernel rebuild) so we can tell
> if these problems are a result of overruning the stack?

Even better move on to a recent kernel - we're now preventing the
VM from reentering the filesystem for reclaim, which should take
care of all practical stack overlfow issues.

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      reply	other threads:[~2010-11-02 16:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-01 15:11 [2.6.32] scheduling while atomic Martin Hamrle
2010-11-02  0:12 ` Dave Chinner
2010-11-02 16:02   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]

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