On 05/18/2011 12:11 PM, Joel Becker wrote: > Oh, over here. > > On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:36:59AM -0700, Sunil Mushran wrote: >> On 05/18/2011 04:12 AM, Joel Becker wrote: >>> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 03:49:56AM -0700, Joel Becker wrote: >>>> sysfs_mutex is peppered everywhere. It's rather ugly, I think. >>>> I am thinking about how the code reads. I admit I also don't like that >>>> sysfs_mutex serializes all accesses to the sysfs directory tree, but I'd >>>> be OK with that as a stopgap solution if the code only read better. >>> Can you test this? >>> >>> Joel >> >> So it did run for far longer. But then hit the following. >> >> http://oss.oracle.com/~smushran/configfs_oops_20110518.txt > I got the same result. > >> BTW, this is not new. I was running into it earlier too. Albeit >> less frequently than readdir. > Do you think this is related, or does my patch fix readdir and > go upstream with another fix coming for this BUG_ON()?
It does not look directly related. Though it too points to a hole in the locking. A second patch for this BUG_ON will work. _______________________________________________ Ocfs2-devel mailing list [email protected] http://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/ocfs2-devel
