[Ocfs2-devel] [Ocfs2-users] ocfs or configfs bug ?

[Joel Becker]

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()?

Joel

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