2.6.31 xfs_fs_destroy_inode: cannot reclaim

[Patrick Schreurs]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 12:27:21PM +0200, Tommy van Leeuwen wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> We had this error reported on the list about 1 or 2 months ago. During
>> that time a lot of fixes were applied. However, we still experience
>> this problem with the recent 2.6.31 tree. We've also applied an extra
>> log entry to aid in debugging.
>>
>> printk("XFS: inode_init_always failed to re-initialize inode\n");
>>
>> However, we didn't see this logging!
> 
> Can you try the patch below, its does two things
> 
>  - remove all that reclaimable flagging if we reclaim the inode
>    directly.  This removes any possibility of racing with the reclaiming
>    thread.
>  - adds asserts if one of the reclaim-related flags is already set.

Update: We've applied this patch on 2 servers. They didn't crash until 
now. Today we've applied the patch on 6 other servers.

We'll keep you posted.

-Patrick