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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-aio <linux-aio@kvack.org>,
	Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>,
	Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: AIO/DIO lockup/crash
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:48:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1209404909.13978.23.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080428090857.beb19a20.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 09:08 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> erk, that's dio->bio_lock, isn't it?

Yep.

> That lock is super-simple and hasn't changed in quite some time.  If there
> has been major memory wreckage and we're simply grabbing at a "lock" in
> random memory then I'd expect the bug to maninfest in different ways on
> different runs?

Looks like it.

> I assume you have lots of runtime debugging options enabled.

Not on this particular run. I'll start a -git run this evening with most
of the debugging option enabled. It takes a few hours to reproduce, so I
let it run over-night.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-28 17:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-28 12:29 AIO/DIO lockup/crash Peter Zijlstra
2008-04-28 16:08 ` Andrew Morton
2008-04-28 17:48   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2008-04-30 14:46     ` Jeff Moyer
2008-04-30 16:31       ` Peter Zijlstra

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