Re: __write_lock_failed

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 02:11:18PM +0200, stefanx wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> some of my virtual machines (kvm/qemu) sometimes crash (xfs, Ubuntu 10.04, 
> 2.6.32-31-x86_64).
> I think it happens while taking LVM-snapshots from the XFS-Filesystem of that 
> machines:

This area has gotten a lot of changes since 2.6.32, including removing
the lock that's causing softlockups for you.  I don't think there's much
of a chance for help with a kernel that old as people's minds have moved
on to much more recent codebases.