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From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
To: Bhagi rathi <jahnu77@gmail.com>
Cc: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>,
	sgi.bugs.xfs@engr.sgi.com, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: TAKE 981498 - Use KM_NOFS for debug trace buffers
Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:56:17 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <489A01E1.1040309@sandeen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc7060690808061012x43511581m15c794e72129becc@mail.gmail.com>

Bhagi rathi wrote:
> I couldn't get a chance to read the diff's completely. If I click on
> Lachlan's url for diff's, I couldn't access them. 

Try again, it takes a while for cvs to catch up.

-Eric

> It looks to me that
> the issue is not just with trace buffers. It can extend to xfs_iformat
> as well. The same dead-lock can spring via
> 
> xfs_iread -> xfs_iformat -> xfs_iformat_extents -> xfs_iext_add ->
> xfs_iext_inline_to_direct -> which can do kmem_alloc with
> KM_SLEEP flag.
> 
> 
> The source of the problem is that holding a lock and entering into
> file-system once again. This can lead to dead-lock on the same
> clustered buffer during cleaning of log space.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bhagi.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-06 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-06  6:15 TAKE 981498 - Use KM_NOFS for debug trace buffers Lachlan McIlroy
2008-08-06 17:12 ` Bhagi rathi
2008-08-06 19:56   ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-08-06 20:19   ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-06 20:27     ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-06 21:03       ` Dave Chinner
2008-08-07  2:19         ` Russell Cattelan
2008-08-07 17:45         ` Bhagi rathi
2008-08-07 17:43     ` Bhagi rathi
2008-08-08  5:16       ` Bhagi rathi
2008-08-07 22:04 ` Christoph Hellwig

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