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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: md deadlock (2.6.31-rc5-git2)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 17:31:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090817213137.GA32521@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <170fa0d20908171416o1e6da4d0xab02cd765a924306@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 05:16:25PM -0400, Mike Snitzer wrote:
 > On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
 > >
 > > This kernel is a bit old (it's what we froze on for Fedora 12 alpha,
 > > and we haven't started building install images with anything newer yet),
 > > but I don't recall seeing anything similar posted recently..
 > >
 > > While creating a series of md arrays, I got the mdadm process to just lock up.
 > > Looking in dmesg showed that it had warned about it too ..
 > ...
 > > 2 locks held by mdadm/2249:
 > >  #0:  (&new->reconfig_mutex#2){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff813edcab>] mddev_lock+0x2a/0x40
 > >  #1:  (&bdev->bd_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8116ed21>] revalidate_disk+0x5e/0x9d
 > 
 > This was fixed with commit: c8c00a6915a2e3d10416e8bdd3138429beb96210

excellent! I missed that. thanks.

	Dave

      reply	other threads:[~2009-08-17 21:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-17 20:17 md deadlock (2.6.31-rc5-git2) Dave Jones
2009-08-17 21:16 ` Mike Snitzer
2009-08-17 21:31   ` Dave Jones [this message]

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