Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for July 7

From: Dave Chinner <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:46:39 +1000

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:27:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:45:13 +1000
> Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Andrew, Al,
> > 
> > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:20:42 -0700 Andrew Morton <[email-masked]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Bug is still there.  Reverting ""Make ->drop_inode() just return
> > > whether inode needs to be dropped" makes it go away.
> > > 
> > > Al, please don't just dump crap in linux-next and then ignore bug reports. 
> > > People are trying to get work done here.
> > 
> > I will revert that commit in linux-next today if it is still there (and
> > not fixed).
> 
> Reverting the patch didn't help - the patch moved the BUG_ON() from
> generic_delete_inode() into __iput_final().  With the patch reverted
> the kernel still goes BUG over the same test in generic_delete_inode().
> 
> It could be that the bug was caused by fs-writeback.c changes.  David,
> do you have time to take a look at this?

I'll have a look at it. What filesystem(s) are you seeing this on?
Any particular workload that triggers it?

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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