Re: AIO/DIO lockup/crash

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Apr 28 2008 - 13:48:43 EST


On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 09:08 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:

> erk, that's dio->bio_lock, isn't it?

Yep.

> That lock is super-simple and hasn't changed in quite some time. If there
> has been major memory wreckage and we're simply grabbing at a "lock" in
> random memory then I'd expect the bug to maninfest in different ways on
> different runs?

Looks like it.

> I assume you have lots of runtime debugging options enabled.

Not on this particular run. I'll start a -git run this evening with most
of the debugging option enabled. It takes a few hours to reproduce, so I
let it run over-night.

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