On Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:27:18 +0100 Ian Kumlien <ian.kuml...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On mån, 2014-01-20 at 14:37 +1100, NeilBrown wrote: > > > > Thanks - that extra info is quite useful. Knowing that nothing else unusual > > is happening can be quite valuable (and I don't like to assume). > > > > I haven't found anything that would clearly cause your crash, but I have > > found something that looks wrong and conceivably could. > > > > Could you please try this patch on top of what you are currently using? By > > the look of it you get a crash at least every day, often more often. So if > > this produces a day with no crashes, that would be promising. > > > > The important aspect of the patch is that it moves the "atomic_inc" of > > "sh->count" back under the protection of ->device_lock in the case when some > > other thread might be using the same 'sh'. > > I have been unable to trip this up, so this was it! > > Tested-by: Ian Kumlien <ian.kuml...@gmail.com> > > I hope this hits stable ASAP ;) I've push it out into my for-next branch. I'll probably send a pull request to Linus tomorrow. It has some chance of getting into a -stable branch next week (though I'm not really sure of the schedule). Thanks again for testing and reporting! NeilBrown
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