Re: 2.6.17-rc6-mm1

[Dave Jones]

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.

$ sudo service nfs start
Starting NFS services:                                     [  OK  ]
Starting NFS quotas:

and that's all she wrote.

ps axf..

 2757 pts/0    S+     0:00  |           \_ /bin/sh /sbin/service nfs start
 2760 pts/0    S+     0:00  |               \_ /bin/sh /etc/init.d/nfs start
 2771 pts/0    S+     0:00  |                   \_ /bin/bash -c ulimit -S -c 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 ; rpc.rquotad
 2772 pts/0    S+     0:00  |                       \_ rpc.rquotad
	

If I ssh into the box, and get sysrq-t output, I see..
http://people.redhat.com/davej/nfs

I've kicked off a clean build that I'll leave running overnight, as I'm not
100% sure that was a clean tree I built from. Odd behaviour for a miscompile though.

		Dave

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