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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Felipe Wilhelms Damasio - Taghos <felipewd@taghos.com.br>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: XFS deadlock fixed?
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 11:35:01 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110511153501.GA8457@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DC8B397.20207@taghos.com.br>

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:40:07AM -0300, Felipe Wilhelms Damasio - Taghos wrote:
>     Hi Mr. Hellwig,
> 
>     I saw the XFS deadlock thread regarding 2.6.38:
> 
> http://www.linux.sgi.com/archives/xfs/2011-03/msg00185.html
> 
>     I'm seeing too in 2.6.38.4. A lot of
> 
> XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc (mode:0x250)

You're probably running into a different issue.  Any chance you can try
the attached patch to see where you're stuck exactly?

Also in case you're using slub (CONFIG_SLUB) can you check if it still
happens when using slab (CONFIG_SLAB) instead?


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-11 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-10  3:40 XFS deadlock fixed? Felipe Wilhelms Damasio - Taghos
2011-05-11 15:35 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-05-11 15:35   ` Christoph Hellwig

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