Re: 2.6.17-rc6-mm1

Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-21T08:15:38Z

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 02:23 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 07:42:29PM +0200, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 01:00 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:47:24AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > >
> > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/peopleD/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17-rc6/2.6.17-rc6-mm1/
> > > >
> > > > - Many more lockdep updates
> > >
> > > Needs more.
> > >
> > > ====================================
> > > [ BUG: possible deadlock detected! ]
> > > ------------------------------------
> > > nfsd/11429 is trying to acquire lock:
> > > (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c032286a>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
> > >
> > > but task is already holding lock:
> > > (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c032286a>] mutex_lock+0x21/0x24
> > >
> > > which could potentially lead to deadlocks!
> >
> > Does this fix it for you? (it fixes the case for me)
>
> Hmm. This makes things drastically worse for me. Now it hangs during NFS startup.

hmm that's highly unexpected