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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/