Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 11 May 2011 15:13:01 -0400 | | From | Nick Bowler <> | | Subject | Re: Lockdep splat in autofs with 2.6.39-rc2 |
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On 2011-04-27 09:22 -0400, Nick Bowler wrote: > On 2011-04-21 17:25 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 03:44:03PM -0400, Nick Bowler wrote: > > > Just saw this on 2.6.39-rc2 after half a day or so of uptime. I've > > > never seen it before today so it may be a regression from 2.6.38. > > > Nothing seems have failed as a result. Please let me know if you > > > need any more info. > > > > Could you try this patch. I know it may be hard to reproduce, but the > > issue is that we are recursing down the locks in a tree/list and we changed a > > lock from being nested to being a parent. This patch tells lockdep about > > what we did. > > OK, I've built 2.6.39-rc5 with this patch applied. However, it took ~5 > days before I saw any splat with -rc4, thus it's unlikely that I'll be > able to say for sure that it works.
FWIW, haven't had any problems with this kernel (+ patch) during the last two weeks.
Cheers, -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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