Re: [patch, -rc5-mm1] lock validator, fix NULL type->name bug

Arjan van de Ven
2006-05-30T12:14:19Z

On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 14:05 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 13:58 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
>
> > =====================================================
> > [ BUG: possible circular locking deadlock detected! ]
> > -----------------------------------------------------
> > mount/2545 is trying to acquire lock:
> > (&ni->mrec_lock){--..}, at: [<b13d1563>] mutex_lock+0x8/0xa
> >
> > ...and deadlocks.
> >
> > I'll try to find out what it hates.
>
> It hates NTFS.

hummm. NTFS does really really weird things with mutexes...
can you try to enable the mutex debugging config option to see if that
triggers anything?