Re: "BUG: scheduling while atomic: pdflush/30/0x00000002" in latest git

From: Grissiom
Date: Fri Jan 09 2009 - 00:18:28 EST


On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 22:37, Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The offender is
> http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=efaee192
>
> async_synchronize_full_special() shouldn't be called while holding a
> spinlock, sb_lock.
>
> I think this patch should fix it. Arjan, would this work?
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/fs/super.c b/fs/super.c
> index cb20744..7d67387 100644
> --- a/fs/super.c
> +++ b/fs/super.c
> @@ -458,7 +458,6 @@ void sync_filesystems(int wait)
> if (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)
> continue;
> sb->s_need_sync_fs = 1;
> - async_synchronize_full_special(&sb->s_async_list);
> }
>
> restart:
> @@ -471,6 +470,7 @@ restart:
> sb->s_count++;
> spin_unlock(&sb_lock);
> down_read(&sb->s_umount);
> + async_synchronize_full_special(&sb->s_async_list);
> if (sb->s_root && (wait || sb->s_dirt))
> sb->s_op->sync_fs(sb, wait);
> up_read(&sb->s_umount);
>
> --
> David Kleikamp
> IBM Linux Technology Center
>
>

Problem gone with this patch applied. Thanks for the fixing.

--
Cheers,
Grissiom
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