Re: 2.6.16-rc5-mm1

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

Michal Piotrowski wrote:
> On 28/02/06, Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > On 28/02/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> >
> > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm1/
> > >
> > >
> > > - A large procfs rework from Eric Biederman.
> > >
> > > - The swap prefetching patch is back.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > > +inotify-lock-avoidance-with-parent-watch-status-in-dentry.patch
> > > +inotify-lock-avoidance-with-parent-watch-status-in-dentry-fix.patch
> >
> > I have noticed this:
> > Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel: BUG: warning at
> > /usr/src/linux-mm/fs/inotify.c:533/inotify_d_instantiate()
> > Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel:  [show_trace+13/15] show_trace+0xd/0xf
> > Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel:  [dump_stack+21/23] dump_stack+0x15/0x17
> > Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel:  [inotify_d_instantiate+47/98]
> > inotify_d_instantiate+0x2f/0x62
> > Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel:  [d_instantiate+70/114]
> > d_instantiate+0x46/0x72
> > Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel:  [ext3_add_nondir+44/64]
> > ext3_add_nondir+0x2c/0x40
> > Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel:  [ext3_link+163/217] ext3_link+0xa3/0xd9
> > Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel:  [vfs_link+292/379] vfs_link+0x124/0x17b
> > Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel:  [sys_linkat+157/218] sys_linkat+0x9d/0xda
> > Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel:  [sys_link+20/25] sys_link+0x14/0x19
> > Feb 28 15:13:42 ltg01-sid kernel:  [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> >
> > Here is dmesg http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/mm/2.6.16-rc5-mm1/mm-dmesg
> > Here is config http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/mm/2.6.16-rc5-mm1/mm-config
>
>
> This patch is causing that warning
> inotify-lock-avoidance-with-parent-watch-status-in-dentry.patch

The warning is harmless really. I guess it can be removed.

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