Re: frequent softlockups with 3.10rc6.

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Jun 27 2013 - 22:55:34 EST


On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Right, that will be what is happening - the entire system will go
> unresponsive when a sync call happens, so it's entirely possible
> to see the soft lockups on inode_sb_list_add()/inode_sb_list_del()
> trying to get the lock because of the way ticket spinlocks work...

So what made it all start happening now? I don't recall us having had
these kinds of issues before..

Linus
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