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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Giangiacomo Mariotti <gg.mariotti@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] 2.6.28.7 - ext4 : possible circular locking dependency detected
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:18:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090222221828.GH17066@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12bfabe40902212114h271b3728tac48b8283d33c20b@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 06:14:57AM +0100, Giangiacomo Mariotti wrote:
> Through dmesg I got this error message :
> 
> [10484.092587] =======================================================
> [10484.092593] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> [10484.092597] 2.6.28.7-my001 #1
> [10484.092600] -------------------------------------------------------
> [10484.092604] kjournald2/3695 is trying to acquire lock:
> [10484.092608]  (&meta_group_info[i]->alloc_sem){----}, at:
> [<ffffffffa039b6d9>] ext4_mb_load_buddy+0xd9/0x34a [ext4]
> [10484.092633]
> [10484.092634] but task is already holding lock:
> [10484.092638]  (&journal->j_list_lock#2){--..}, at:
> [<ffffffffa0370033>] jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xf06/0x117b
> [jbd2]

This is fixed in mainline after 2.6.29-rc5, in commit ba4439.  Over
this past weekend I backported the most recent set of fixes for the
2.6.28.y and 2.6.27.y series.  I've asked interested people to test
the for-stable and for-stable-2.6.27 branches of the ext4 git tree; if
I don't get any breakage reports, I'll send this set of fixes to
stable@kernel.org in the next couple of days.

Regards,

						- Ted

      reply	other threads:[~2009-02-22 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-22  5:14 [BUG] 2.6.28.7 - ext4 : possible circular locking dependency detected Giangiacomo Mariotti
2009-02-22 22:18 ` Theodore Tso [this message]

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