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

From: Fengguang Wu
Date: Sat Jun 09 2012 - 07:07:32 EST


On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 10:38:04PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> 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....

1MB memory? How do you manage to boot it? Recently I tried running a
big fat kernel (with almost everything built in) that can easily OOM
(at boot time, before swapon) even given 256MB memory...

Thanks,
Fengguang
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/