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From: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
To: Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@googlemail.com>
Cc: Yang Ruirui <ruirui.r.yang@tieto.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Alex Elder <aelder@sgi.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: -mm: xfs lockdep warning
Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:55:16 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CAB5874.9060106@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CAB5779.5020901@kernel.org>

On 10/05/2010 06:51 PM, Tejun Heo wrote:
> On 10/05/2010 12:09 PM, Torsten Kaiser wrote:
>> 2) the hang with 2.6.35-rc5 I have seen twice (triggered probably by
>> high load while building KOffice on an tmpfs)
> 
> The trace doesn't seem to firmly point at xfs locking up.  There are
> md and dm crypt involved.  Are you sure this is locking up inside xfs?
> Also, can you please enable frame pointers so that we can get more
> reliable backtrace?
> 
>> 3) the lockdep issue that started this thread and that I am seeing in
>> mainline 2.6.36-rc5 and -rc6 and that seems to be rather easy to
>> trigger for me.
>>
>> Because 3) is regarded as a false positive, it should not be the cause
>> of 2)
> 
> For now, let's not draw any conclusion or mix the issues.  I'll look
> up the original thread and look into what the lockdep warning means.

Ah, okay, David already looked into it and concluded it to be a
spurious one.  Can you please attach full kernel message of the
lockup?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-05 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-16  7:46 -mm: xfs lockdep warning Yang Ruirui
2010-09-17  0:52 ` Dave Chinner
2010-09-20 19:13   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-25 13:08     ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-10-04  9:01       ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-04  9:21         ` Dave Chinner
2010-10-05 10:09           ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-10-05 16:51             ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-05 16:55               ` Tejun Heo [this message]
2010-10-05 18:09                 ` Torsten Kaiser
2010-10-05 18:17                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-05 17:54               ` Torsten Kaiser

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