Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] ntfs OOPS (2.5.63)

From: Szakacsits Szabolcs (szaka@sienet.hu)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 12:56:41 EST


On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Randy.Dunlap wrote:

> BTW, I think that this would be a reasonable reason (huh?) to dismiss
> this bug against NTFS -- i.e., if it's found to be a problem in general
> kernel debug helpers. Still be nice to find where it happened,
> of course.

It seems (and CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK also seems to contribute)
        init_MUTEX(&ni->mrec_lock);
                ...
                INIT_LIST_HEAD(...)

and IMHO that shouldn't happen :) But you have the infamous 2.96
compiler, there were several updates for Red Hat [remember how buggy
code it complied?] but I don't know how many updates were issued for
Mandrake and if you did those. gcc 3.2.2 generates much nicer code for
__ntfs_init_inode.

        Szaka

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