Re: writeback: bad unlock balance detected in 3.5-rc1

[Ted Ts'o]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2012 at 08:37:28AM +0900, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> 
> Here is the updated changelog:
> 
>         writeback: Fix lock imbalance in writeback_sb_inodes()
> 
>         Fix bug introduced by 169ebd90.  We have to have wb_list_lock locked when
>         restarting writeback loop after having waited for inode writeback.
> 
>         Bug description by Ted Tso:
>           
>           I can reproduce this fairly easily by using ext4 w/o a journal, running
>           under KVM with 1024megs memory, with fsstress (xfstests #13):

Not that it matters that much, but I typo'ed the description; sorry
about that.  The KVM only had 1024k of memory....

						- Ted
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