Re: 2.6.12.2 dies after 24 hours

[Rob Mueller]

> Sorry for the confusion, you're hitting the other mmap_sem -> transaction 
> lock
> problem.  This one should be solvable with an iget so we make sure not to 
> do
> the final unlink until after the mmap sem is dropped.
>
> Lets see what I can do...

Oh dang.

I thought this last crash after upgrading to 2.6.12.2 was due to the IRQ 
BALANCE issue Lars suggested, but you're saying that it's actually a whole 
different bug, though similar to the previous "prepare_write ... 
copy_from_user ... commit_write" lock problem?

Is this something new between 2.6.4-mm2 and 2.6.12.2? Or would it have 
always been present, just for some reason we're hitting it in 2.6.12 now but 
weren't hitting it in 2.6.4?

I feel we're moving backwards... :(

Rob

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