Re: xfs deadlock in stable kernel 3.0.4

[Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Am 14.09.2011 09:48, schrieb Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG:
> Hi,
>
> > > Oops, that's a bug that I actually introduced myself. Fix below:
> > Thanks for the patch.
> >
> > Now we have the following situation:
> >
> > 1.) Systems running fine with 2.6.32, 2.6.38 and with 3.1 rc-6 + patch
> > 2.) Sadly it does not run with 3.0.4 for more than 1 hour. And 3.0.X
> > will become the next long term stable. So there will be a lot of people
> > using it.
> > 3.) I have seen this deadlock on systems with aacraid and with intel
> > ahci onboard. (that's all we're using)
> > 4.) I still write to other devices / raids on the same controller while
> > the XFS root filesystem hangs.
> Sadly it was now crashing with 3.1 rc-6 + patch again. Sorry i was to
> fast to write you an email.
So might it be that the problem at least in 3.1 lies in:
[] ? mark_held_locks+0xc9/0xef
[] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x3f/0x47

and not in XFS?

Stefan