On Monday 15 May 2006 17:04, Christian Trefzer wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> as I am heavily using reiser4 for some time now on my stable machine,
> I keep a git tree with vanilla -stable and reiser4 since -mm has
> sometimes been too unreliable. Lurking on this list I collected some
> patches, of which two seem to collide. The first one fixes a nasty
> "out of memory?" Oops for me and maybe others, and the second one was
> posted as a response to other Oopses on the list.
>
> Since I reversed the first one in order to apply the second one,
> thinking (wrongly) that this one should be a better fix for the same
> issues and maybe more, I have my old pal out of memory back. Maybe
> the two should be merged in a compatible way, and a new patch against
> 2.6.16-stable be put on the namesys ftp server?
>
> Anyway, here come the patches in question:
>
> From: Alexander Zarochentsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com
> Subject: Re: "warning("vs-44", "out of memory?")"
> Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:26:59 +0400
>
> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 13:06, Alexander Zarochentsev wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > On Wednesday 12 April 2006 11:42, Roy Lanek wrote:
> > > I have managed to save a copy of my
> > > /var/log/socklog-klog/others/current
> > > before the next complete freezing happened.
> >
> > Please use the latest reiser4 patch reiser4-for-2.6.16-2 from
> > ftp.namesys.com.
>
> and apply the following patch:The patch disables the BUG() but reiser4 can deadlock. However the deadlock requires 3 processes to use the same EA/NEA semaphore. better patches are there: ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.17-rc4/2.6.17-rc4-mm1/broken-out/ reiser4-have-get_exclusive_access-restart-transaction.patch reiser4-add-missing-txn_restart-before-get_nonexclusive_access-calls.patch > Index: linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm1/fs/reiser4/plugin/item/extent_file_ops.c > =================================================================== > --- > linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm1.orig/fs/reiser4/plugin/item/extent_file_ops.c > +++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm1/fs/reiser4/plugin/item/extent_file_ops.c @@ > -807,7 +807,7 @@ extent_balance_dirty_pages(struct inode > if (excl) > get_exclusive_access(uf_info); > else > - get_nonexclusive_access(uf_info, 0); > + get_nonexclusive_access(uf_info, 1); > } > return 0; > } > Index: linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm1/fs/reiser4/plugin/item/tail.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm1.orig/fs/reiser4/plugin/item/tail.c > +++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-mm1/fs/reiser4/plugin/item/tail.c > @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ tail_balance_dirty_pages(struct address_ > if (excl) > get_exclusive_access(uf_info); > else > - get_nonexclusive_access(uf_info, 0); > + get_nonexclusive_access(uf_info, 1); > } > return 0; > } > > > This one helped me a lot. The second one brought older problems back, > but may have fixed others for some people on this list. It seems to > remove the second argument to get_nonexclusive_access(), though: > > From: Alexander Zarochentsev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com > Subject: Re: Reproducible reiser4 bug with 2.6.16.2 patch on > tail_conversion.c:80 Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 11:24:53 +0400 > > --Boundary-00=_FbuYEKWWhFAJ/IU > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: inline > > Hello > > [original message snipped] > > please check whether the attached patch helps. -- Alex.
