On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 10:20:13AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 11:45:37AM +1000, David Chinner wrote:
> > No idea - it looks like dkpg was trying to remove a directory on the
> > same path the lookup was and both have gone splat in __d_lookup on
> > the same dentry. Something happened in those 180 days that left a
> > landmine that was tripped over here, I think. I can't see any way of
> > tracking it down from this, but thanks for reporting it anyway,
>
> This looks a lot like the i_sem leak that Vlad debugged. Do you remember
> where this was fixed?
The i_sem leak was hitting us on sles9 - 2.6.5 base kernel - and it was fixed
before the i_sem -> i_mutex conversion in mainline. Some time around 2.6.16,
IIRC. Given this was a 2.6.20 kernel, there'd be an almighty kaboom if that
bug still existed after the i_mutex conversion....
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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