Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Known prob: MAX_LOCK_DEPTH too low? | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:13:49 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 08:26 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: > Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 17:17 -0800, Linda Walsh wrote: > > > >> On my x86_64 machine, I got the following message > >> in log (kern = 2.6.23.14) > >> > >> Jan 16 04:08:38 Astara kernel: BUG: MAX_LOCK_DEPTH too low! > >> Jan 16 04:08:38 Astara kernel: turning off the locking correctness > >> validator. > >> > >> Have no idea what caused it as I found the message on my console > >> somewhat after the fact. The system had been up over 24 hours and > >> is still running. System still seems 'fine' (been up 3 days now), > >> so you can treat this as a "data point". > >> > > > > Are you perhaps an XFS user? > > > > > ---- > Funny you should mention that... yes. However, there were no > other messages that seem to indicate that the message had anything > to do with XFS. Nice shot in the dark.
:-), know issue, I guess I'll up the MAX_LOCK_DEPTH for the next release. I looked at dynamically allocating that stuff, but that gets awfully painful.
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