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From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
To: Ethan Solomita <solo@google.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>,
	Rohit Seth <rohitseth@google.com>,
	viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sysfs reclaim crash
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:19:21 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070327184921.GA2057@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46096202.6080205@google.com>

On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:27:14AM -0700, Ethan Solomita wrote:
> 	Hi Maneesh -- I will start testing with the patch you provided. If 
> 	you come up with any further issues please let me know. Also, if you could 
> suggest some additional BUG() lines that I could insert I would 
> appreciate it. Since the bug is hard to reproduce, it may be easier to 
> catch a race condition in the making via BUG() than an actual failure 
> due to a race condition.
> 

Hi Ethan,

Thanks for testing. The BUG_ON in sysfs_d_iput() is still there to catch
the first race we saw. And the second one should not occur as now we are not
using the s_dentry in sysfs_readdir(). 

Regards,
Maneesh

--
Maneesh Soni
Linux Technology Center,
IBM India Systems and Technology Lab, 
Bangalore, India

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-27 18:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20070319140238.cbf28b2b.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
     [not found] ` <20070321134654.5wkqpfbpk0ggwks8@imap.linux.ibm.com>
     [not found]   ` <20070321182123.GA12602@in.ibm.com>
     [not found]     ` <20070323043047.GA5641@in.ibm.com>
     [not found]       ` <20070322210504.3b052139.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
     [not found]         ` <46042DDF.5060000@google.com>
2007-03-24  3:05           ` sysfs reclaim crash Maneesh Soni
2007-03-27 18:27             ` Ethan Solomita
2007-03-27 18:49               ` Maneesh Soni [this message]
2007-04-03  7:38             ` [PATCH] fix sysfs_readdir oops (was Re: sysfs reclaim crash) Maneesh Soni
2007-04-03 20:46               ` Ethan Solomita
2007-04-07  8:31               ` Tejun Heo

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