Re: xfs deadlock in stable kernel 3.0.4

Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-14T08:49:24Z

Hi,

Am 14.09.2011 09:48, schrieb Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG:
> Hi,
>
>>> Oops, that's a bug that I actually introduced myself. Fix below:
>>
>> Thanks for the patch.
>>
>> Now we have the following situation:
>>
>> 1.) Systems running fine with 2.6.32, 2.6.38 and with 3.1 rc-6 + patch
>> 2.) Sadly it does not run with 3.0.4 for more than 1 hour. And 3.0.X
>> will become the next long term stable. So there will be a lot of people
>> using it.
>> 3.) I have seen this deadlock on systems with aacraid and with intel
>> ahci onboard. (that's all we're using)
>> 4.) I still write to other devices / raids on the same controller while
>> the XFS root filesystem hangs.
>
> Sadly it was now crashing with 3.1 rc-6 + patch again. Sorry i was to
> fast to write you an email.

So might it be that the problem at least in 3.1 lies in:
[] ? mark_held_locks+0xc9/0xef
[] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3f/0x47

and not in XFS?