Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933419AbXHFTj7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:39:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758620AbXHFTiw (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:38:52 -0400 Received: from pat.uio.no ([129.240.10.15]:33040 "EHLO pat.uio.no" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1765718AbXHFTiu (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:38:50 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.6.22.1 Oops in put_nfs_open_context From: Trond Myklebust To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "J. Bruce Fields" , stable@kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070806114534.a69644cc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070806100813.GA30370@gallifrey> <20070806110107.0d0a2c2b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1186424394.6616.44.camel@localhost> <20070806114534.a69644cc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 15:38:44 -0400 Message-Id: <1186429124.6616.72.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UiO-Resend: resent X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-0.1, required=12.0, autolearn=disabled, AWL=-0.052) X-UiO-Scanned: 7CF46F98C074E6942E38EDCA651A4158F09DCA07 X-UiO-SPAM-Test: remote_host: 129.240.10.9 spam_score: 0 maxlevel 200 minaction 2 bait 0 mail/h: 688 total 3122345 max/h 8345 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2111 Lines: 51 On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:45 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 14:19:54 -0400 Trond Myklebust wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:01 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:08:13 +0100 "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" wrote: > > > > > > > The oops below is from one of a pair of machines that run compiles; > > > > they're not managing to stay up for more than a day or two at a time > > > > this is the first time I've actually managed to capture an oops from one. > > > > They lock to the point where they still ping, and they won't toggle > > > > capslock. A top left running on them showed it sitting with pdflush > > > > using 99% CPU. > > > > > > > > Config at the bottom. The hardware are supermicro X7DVA boards with > > > > 2x Xeon 5140's. (These Supermicro bios don't appear to have the PCI-Express > > > > coalesce option being discussed in another thread). > > > > > > > > ... > > > > I believe this fix should address it. > > Neat, and that's already in 2.6.23-rc2. Please consider sending something > to stable@kernel.org when the dust has settled. David, it would be great if > we could get confirmation, please.. I haven't pushed it to Linus yet, but it might already be in -mm? I'm planning a merge of a half-dozen fixes as soon as I get the last couple of confirmations from the people testing them. > > From: Trond Myklebust > > Subject: No Subject > > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:06:17 -0400 > > > > We need to grab the inode->i_lock atomically with the last reference put in > > order to remove the open context that is being freed from the > > nfsi->open_files list. > > Your patches have lost their titles btw. Sorry about that. Evolution appears to "recognise" the patches as emails, and gets confused... Cheers Trond - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/