Re: Known prob: MAX_LOCK_DEPTH too low?

[Linda Walsh <lkml@xxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 17:17 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote:
>   
> > On my x86_64 machine, I got the following message
> > in log (kern = 2.6.23.14)
> >
> > Jan 16 04:08:38 Astara kernel: BUG: MAX_LOCK_DEPTH too low!
> > Jan 16 04:08:38 Astara kernel: turning off the locking correctness 
> > validator.
> > Have no idea what caused it as I found the message on my console
> > somewhat after the fact.  The system had been up over 24 hours and
> > is still running.  System still seems 'fine' (been up 3 days now),
> > so you can treat this as a "data point".
> >     
> Are you perhaps an XFS user?
>
>   
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   Funny you should mention that...  yes.  However, there were no
other messages that seem to indicate that the message had anything
to do with XFS.  Nice shot in the dark.