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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mingming Cao <cmm@us.ibm.com>,
	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: 2.6.16-rc5-mm3: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0 on AMD64
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 16:10:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603121610.31881.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060312142654.650b90fb.akpm@osdl.org>

On Sunday 12 March 2006 23:26, Andrew Morton wrote:

> 
> It's a pretty vile backtrace.  I supposed you have CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER=n.

Won't make a difference because the oops backtracer doesn't
use them.

> Still.  It seems that what's happened is that we took a pagefault while
> reiserfs had a transaction open.  The fault is against a mmapped ext3 file
> and we ended up in the recently-reworked ext3_get_block() which tests
> journal_current_handle() to work out whether we're in a write or a read. 
> oops.  The presence of reiserfs journal_info makes it decide it's a write,
> not a read so it starts treating a reiserfs journal_info as an ext3 one.
> 
> The code used to work OK because it was only for direct-IO, which doesn't
> get recurred into like this.  But it got used for regular I/O in -mm.

Oops. Can this happen in more situations?

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-12 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-11 23:24 2.6.16-rc5-mm3: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0 on AMD64 Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-03-11 23:36 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-12 10:27   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-03-12 12:49     ` [discuss] " Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-03-12 22:26       ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-12 15:10         ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-03-12 23:23           ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-13 11:34         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-03-13 11:45           ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-13 12:07             ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-03-13 16:02               ` Badari Pulavarty
2006-03-13 18:12                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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