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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:11:43 +0100
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Subject: Re: Reiserfs deadlock in 2.6.36
From: Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 7:04 PM, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 06:50:48PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> Le jeudi 16 d?cembre 2010 14:49:48, Bastien ROUCARIES a ?crit :
>> > Le jeudi 2 d?cembre 2010 18:43:32, vous avez ?crit :
>> > > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 05:57:05PM +0100, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
>> > > > Dear frederic,
>> I achieve to reproduce it. BTW it is my home partition with acl enable
>
> How do you know you reproduced it? You had a crash before using SysRq?
> Or you felt a deadlock or so?
>
> What's interesting is that report is that there is no blocked task
> that holds the reiserfs lock.
>
> So I really feel the problem is that someone opened the journal but did not
> release it.

Could you add a virtual lock for testing this hypothesis ? This lock
will be held during journal opening and releasing during journal
closing, using lockdep for testing this hypothesis ?
>
> How hard is it to reproduce now? If it's not so hard or haphazard, we should
> start a bisection. Otherwise I think we'll need to do some tracing and this
> is going to take several tries :)
>
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