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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	"bugme-daemon@kernel-bugs.osdl.org" 
	<bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alex@hausnet.ru
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7495] New: Kernel periodically hangs.
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:22:19 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1584.1163416939@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17752.5086.510190.316725@cse.unsw.edu.au>

Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> wrote:

> it would appear that in:
> 	if (inode->i_sb && inode->i_sb->s_op->clear_inode)
> 		inode->i_sb->s_op->clear_inode(inode);
> 
> inode->i_sb->s_op is NULL.

Agreed.

> This tends to suggest that generic_shutdown_super isn't releasing all inodes
> before the superblock gets destroyed.
> 
> I cannot see how this could be happening

Perhaps sb->s_root == NULL?  That would permit most of generic_shutdown_super()
to be bypassed, including the check that all the inodes have been consumed.

David

      reply	other threads:[~2006-11-13 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200611111129.kABBTWgp014081@fire-2.osdl.org>
2006-11-11 18:00 ` [Bugme-new] [Bug 7495] New: Kernel periodically hangs Andrew Morton
2006-11-11 18:10   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-11 18:19     ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-12 11:50       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 12:53         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-12 13:16           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 13:37             ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-12 13:57               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 14:10                 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-12 14:16                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 15:21                     ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-12 15:50                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 15:59                       ` Patrick McFarland
2006-11-12 16:07                         ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-12 16:47                         ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-12 21:45                     ` Dave Jones
2006-11-13  2:07                       ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-12 19:18             ` Ingo Oeser
2006-11-12 19:34               ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-12 20:32               ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-13  6:42   ` Neil Brown
2006-11-13 11:22     ` David Howells [this message]

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