Re: 2.6.16-rc5-mm1: inotify BUG warnings

["Michal Piotrowski" <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On 02/03/06, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@arklinux.org> wrote:
> I'm getting a number of those when running KDE 3.5.1 on a 2.6.16-rc5-mm1 box:
>
> Mar  2 20:51:44 ch kernel: BUG: warning at
> fs/inotify.c:533/inotify_d_instantiate()
> Mar  2 20:51:44 ch kernel:  [<b0187017>] inotify_d_instantiate+0x57/0x60
> Mar  2 20:51:44 ch kernel:  [<b0176da2>] d_instantiate+0x42/0x90
> Mar  2 20:51:44 ch kernel:  [<b01a761c>] ext3_add_nondir+0x3c/0x60
> Mar  2 20:51:44 ch kernel:  [<b01a8016>] ext3_link+0xa6/0xf0
> Mar  2 20:51:44 ch kernel:  [<b016c67e>] vfs_link+0x14e/0x1b0
> Mar  2 20:51:44 ch kernel:  [<b016fa8e>] sys_linkat+0x11e/0x140
> Mar  2 20:51:44 ch kernel:  [<b014b2ec>] __handle_mm_fault+0x66c/0x820
> Mar  2 20:51:44 ch kernel:  [<b0114650>] do_page_fault+0x420/0x6ce
> Mar  2 20:51:44 ch kernel:  [<b016fadf>] sys_link+0x2f/0x40
> Mar  2 20:51:44 ch kernel:  [<b0102e13>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
>
> Other than these, the system seems to run perfectly.

It is known issue, harmless.

You can revert these patches:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm1/broken-out/inotify-lock-avoidance-with-parent-watch-status-in-dentry-fix.patch
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc5/2.6.16-rc5-mm1/broken-out/inotify-lock-avoidance-with-parent-watch-status-in-dentry.patch

Regards,
Michal

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Michal K. K. Piotrowski
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