Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753295AbYHLWfq (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:35:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752157AbYHLWfi (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:35:38 -0400 Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org ([64.81.245.74]:41683 "EHLO ishtar.tlinx.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752155AbYHLWfh (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:35:37 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 400 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:35:37 EDT Message-ID: <48A20E9E.9090100@tlinx.org> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:28:46 -0700 From: "Linda A. Walsh" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: xfs-oss , LKML CC: Eric Sandeen Subject: Re: XFS Lock debugging noise or real problem? References: <48A093A7.40606@tlinx.org> <48A09CA9.9080705@sandeen.net> <48A0F686.2090700@tlinx.org> <48A0F9FC.1070805@sandeen.net> In-Reply-To: <48A0F9FC.1070805@sandeen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 787 Lines: 25 Eric Sandeen wrote: > ... Is it also known, (and the same bug) when you get the lock warnings when doing "xfs_restore", as well (dio_get_page and xfs_ilock)... Doesn't give me the warm & fuzzies, but I'm sure you've heard that sentiment plenty of times... The bugs with 'sort', & imap were both with xfs_ilock and shrink_icache_memory. I saw another bug (different prog) with those two locks that was said to be a bug in XFS by Andrew Morton, but he didn't say if it was the same known "harmless" "bug" or if it was more serious. -- 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/