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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Jamie Clark <jclark@metaparadigm.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.23aa1 ext3 oops
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:42:38 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1071661358.13152.26.camel@imladris.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FD7D78A.4080409@metaparadigm.com>

On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 10:33 +0800, Jamie Clark wrote:
> After a quick browse of the assembler output the zeroing would appear to 
> be part of the list_del inline, and edi seems to equate to &sb. 

Seems reasonable. It does look like something's stomped on sb->s_dirty.

> __mark_inode_dirty() does not appear to take sb_lock before adding to 
> the s_dirty list. Could that be the culprit?

I don't think so; it's holding the inode_lock which should be
sufficient. Besides -- in practice all updates to the 4-byte pointer
sb->s_dirty.next are going to be atomic, and there's no reason _ever_
for it to be set to d7ffbc08. It's hard to see how a simple locking
problem is going to cause such a thing.

How repeatable is this? Can you turn on slab poisoning?

-- 
dwmw2



  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-17 11:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-04  2:49 2.4.23pre6aa3 scsi oops Jamie Clark
2003-11-04 10:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-04 11:52   ` Jamie Clark
2003-11-04 12:48     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2003-11-27  3:21     ` 2.4.23pre6aa3 - possible ext3 deadlock Jamie Clark
2003-11-27 12:56       ` Jan Kara
2003-12-06  1:05     ` 2.4.23pre6aa3 scsi oops Andrea Arcangeli
2003-12-06  1:39       ` Jamie Clark
2003-12-11  2:33       ` 2.4.23aa1 ext3 oops Jamie Clark
2003-12-16 15:15         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-16 15:55           ` Jamie Clark
2003-12-17 11:42         ` David Woodhouse [this message]
2003-12-18  6:19           ` Jamie Clark
2003-12-18  6:25             ` David Woodhouse
2003-12-18  7:33               ` Jamie Clark

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