From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757566AbZAFXGK (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:06:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752653AbZAFXFz (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:05:55 -0500 Received: from mail.fieldses.org ([141.211.133.115]:40758 "EHLO fieldses.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751375AbZAFXFy (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:05:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:05:51 -0500 To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Neil Brown , Eric Sesterhenn Subject: Re: nfsd stuckage Message-ID: <20090106230551.GC13785@fieldses.org> References: <20090106145612.d4d9948d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20090106230244.GB13785@fieldses.org> <20090106230356.GA31520@lst.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090106230356.GA31520@lst.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) From: "J. Bruce Fields" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:03:56AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 06:02:44PM -0500, J. Bruce Fields wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2009 at 02:56:12PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > > > I just built current mainline plus the just-sent 266 -mm patches. > > > > > > The machine failed to power off when hit with `halt -pfn'. dmesg output: > > > > Christoph, can you live with this for now? > > nfsd part is well, livable. But the fs/sync.c is buggy as stackable > filesystems can call vfs_fsync with a NULL pointer due to nfs calling it > that way, so please drop that hunk. Whoops, OK, I didn't understand that. I'll drop that hunk, retest, then submit--should take a few minutes. --b.