From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: processes hung after sys_renameat, and 'missing' processes
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 00:40:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120603234042.GR30000@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120603232820.GQ30000@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 12:28:20AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Everything in lock_rename() appears to be at lock_rename+0x3e. Unless
> there's a really huge amount of filesystems on that box, this has to
> be
> mutex_lock_nested(&p1->d_inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_PARENT);
> and everything on that sucker is not holding any locks yet. IOW, that's
> the tail hanging off whatever deadlock is there.
Er... After another look, probably not - it's ->s_vfs_rename_mutex,
so we are seeing one cross-directory rename stuck on something with
all subsequent ones blocked on attempt to grab said mutex.
The interesting one is the guy stuck at lock_rename+0xc9/0xf0, everything
else in lock_rename() is the consequence.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-03 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-03 22:36 processes hung after sys_renameat, and 'missing' processes Dave Jones
2012-06-03 22:51 ` Dave Jones
2012-06-03 23:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-03 23:17 ` Al Viro
2012-06-03 23:28 ` Al Viro
2012-06-03 23:40 ` Al Viro [this message]
2012-06-03 23:59 ` Al Viro
2012-06-04 0:07 ` Dave Jones
2012-06-06 19:42 ` Dave Jones
2012-06-06 22:38 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-06 23:00 ` Dave Jones
2012-06-06 23:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-06 23:54 ` Al Viro
2012-06-07 0:29 ` Dave Jones
2012-06-07 0:40 ` Al Viro
2012-06-07 0:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-07 1:19 ` Dave Jones
2012-06-07 1:29 ` Al Viro
2012-06-07 1:31 ` Dave Jones
2012-06-07 1:31 ` Al Viro
2012-06-07 1:42 ` Dave Jones
2012-06-07 1:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-07 1:54 ` Al Viro
2012-06-07 2:08 ` Dave Jones
2012-06-07 19:36 ` Al Viro
2012-06-07 20:43 ` Sage Weil
2012-06-07 23:12 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-06-07 23:39 ` Al Viro
2012-06-07 23:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-08 0:36 ` Al Viro
2012-06-08 0:42 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-08 0:59 ` Al Viro
2012-06-08 5:25 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-06-08 5:48 ` Al Viro
2012-06-08 7:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-06-08 20:20 ` Al Viro
2012-06-08 2:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-06-08 2:37 ` Al Viro
2012-06-08 2:18 ` Al Viro
2012-06-08 16:22 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-06-08 17:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-11 12:17 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-06-07 1:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-07 0:35 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-07 10:26 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-07 15:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-08 7:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 14:38 ` Dave Jones
2012-06-08 14:51 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 15:01 ` Dave Jones
2012-06-08 15:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-08 15:21 ` Dave Jones
2012-06-08 14:46 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-06-08 15:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-11 12:17 ` J. Bruce Fields
2012-06-04 0:00 ` Dave Jones
2012-06-04 0:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-04 0:20 ` Al Viro
2012-06-04 9:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-04 9:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-04 10:49 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-06-07 0:13 ` Dave Jones
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-06-07 7:07 Miklos Szeredi
2012-06-07 15:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-06-11 16:02 ` Miklos Szeredi
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