Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756910AbXIRLKP (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:10:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755317AbXIRLKD (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:10:03 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:56232 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755287AbXIRLKA (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:10:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:09:57 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: David Chinner Cc: Christoph Hellwig , Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: 2.6.20 (XFS? related) crash after uptime of > 180 days during apt-get dist-upgrade on Debian Testing Message-ID: <20070918110957.GA5385@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , David Chinner , Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com References: <20070918014537.GK23367404@sgi.com> <20070918092013.GA1352@infradead.org> <20070918103916.GV23367404@sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070918103916.GV23367404@sgi.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 787 Lines: 15 On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 08:39:16PM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > The i_sem leak was hitting us on sles9 - 2.6.5 base kernel - and it was fixed > before the i_sem -> i_mutex conversion in mainline. Some time around 2.6.16, > IIRC. Given this was a 2.6.20 kernel, there'd be an almighty kaboom if that > bug still existed after the i_mutex conversion.... We didn't fix it before the i_mutex conversion - I saw the mutex debugging messages after the i_mutex conversion, but didn't see the corelation. Probably still long before 2.6.22, though. - 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/