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Amit Nithian commented on HDFS-1542:
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Hey guys,

Not sure where we are on this but it just hit me.. if I unapply the 
aforementioned patch that added the synchronized keyword to the writeXML, then 
would the deadlock not happen? I don't care about dumping the configuration at 
runtime for the moment but if I can get my jobs to run then that would free up 
a lot of other internal tasks me and my team are doing. I suspect I just need 
to do this and rebuild hadoop on the jobtracker machine which should minimize 
any code changes across my cluster

Happy holidays!
Amit

> Deadlock in Configuration.writeXml when serialized form is larger than one 
> DFS block
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-1542
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1542
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: hdfs client
>    Affects Versions: 0.22.0, 0.23.0
>            Reporter: Todd Lipcon
>            Assignee: Todd Lipcon
>            Priority: Critical
>         Attachments: deadlock.txt, hdfs-1542.txt, Test.java
>
>
> Configuration.writeXml holds a lock on itself and then writes the XML to an 
> output stream, during which DFSOutputStream will try to get a lock on 
> ackQueue/dataQueue. Meanwihle the DataStreamer thread will call functions 
> like conf.getInt() and deadlock against the other thread, since it could be 
> the same conf object.
> This causes a deterministic deadlock whenever the serialized form is larger 
> than block size.

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