Re: 2.6.16-rc5-mm1

Nick Piggin
2006-03-01T02:16:13Z

Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> On 28/02/06, Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>On 28/02/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>>
>>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm1/
>>>
>>>
>>>- A large procfs rework from Eric Biederman.
>>>
>>>- The swap prefetching patch is back.
>>>
>>
>>[snip]
>>
>>>+inotify-lock-avoidance-with-parent-watch-status-in-dentry.patch
>>>+inotify-lock-avoidance-with-parent-watch-status-in-dentry-fix.patch
>>
>>I have noticed this:
>>Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel: BUG: warning at
>>/usr/src/linux-mm/fs/inotify.c:533/inotify_d_instantiate()
>>Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel: [show_trace+13/15] show_trace+0xd/0xf
>>Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel: [dump_stack+21/23] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
>>Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel: [inotify_d_instantiate+47/98]
>>inotify_d_instantiate+0x2f/0x62
>>Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel: [d_instantiate+70/114]
>>d_instantiate+0x46/0x72
>>Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel: [ext3_add_nondir+44/64]
>>ext3_add_nondir+0x2c/0x40
>>Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel: [ext3_link+163/217] ext3_link+0xa3/0xd9
>>Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel: [vfs_link+292/379] vfs_link+0x124/0x17b
>>Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel: [sys_linkat+157/218] sys_linkat+0x9d/0xda
>>Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel: [sys_link+20/25] sys_link+0x14/0x19
>>Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel: [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
>>
>>Here is dmesg http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/mm/2.6.16-rc5-mm1/mm-dmesg
>>Here is config http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/mm/2.6.16-rc5-mm1/mm-config
>
>
> This patch is causing that warning
> inotify-lock-avoidance-with-parent-watch-status-in-dentry.patch
>

The warning is harmless really. I guess it can be removed.

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