[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH 4/4] ocfs2/dlm: Make dlm_assert_master_handler() kill itself instead of the asserter

[Sunil Mushran]

Joel Becker wrote:
> 	You mean that the node asserting mastery is probably correct,
> and the node that sees a disconnect between mastery information and the
> asserter is confused?

Yes. It's empirical, ofcourse. This is not easy to trigger. Though
now I have a testcase + env in which I can trigger it more commonly.

The real issue is still there. I am working on it. The reason I want
to push this now is because there are cases when the assertee
kills off multiple asserting nodes.


> 	BUG() isn't much of a die.  Are you figuring soft lockup code
> will eventually kill this?

I've never heard of a BUG() that did not kill a node. Atleast on x86.
Are you sure about this?