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SubjectRe: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rwsem.c:131 XFS?
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Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> writes:

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 06:58:38PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 03:42:16PM +0400, Alexander Beregalov wrote:
>> > Bisected to:
>> > dd509097cb0b76d3836385f80d6b2d6fd3b97757 is first bad commit
>> > commit dd509097cb0b76d3836385f80d6b2d6fd3b97757
>> > Author: Lachlan McIlroy <lachlan@sgi.com>
>> > Date: Mon Sep 29 14:56:40 2008 +1000
>> >
>> > [XFS] Unlock inode before calling xfs_idestroy()
>> >
>> > Lock debugging reported the ilock was being destroyed without being
>> > unlocked. We don't need to lock the inode until we are going to insert it
>> > into the radix tree.
>>
>> Ah, OK, I see the problem, though I don't understand why I'm not
>> seeing the might_sleep() triggering all the time given that I always
>> build with:
>>
>> $ grep SLEEP .config
>> CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP=y
>>
>> Basically the above commit moved xfs_ilock() inside
>> radix_tree_preload()/radix_tree_preload_end(), which means we are
>> taking a rwsem() while we have an elevated preempt count. I'll
>> get a patch out to fix it.
>
> Patch below (against the xfs master/linux-next branch) should fix the
> regression. I've just started QA on it. Can you please check that
> it works for you, Alexander?

Ran into the same problem, the fix worked for me.

Thank you.

Hannes


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