linux-kernel - Re: Let's get rid of those annoying "VFS is out of sync with lock manager" messages (includes proposed patch)

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Date:	Fri, 8 Dec 2006 15:48:24 +0100
From:	"Jesper Juhl" <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	"Neil Brown" <neilb@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Trond Myklebust" <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
	nfs@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Let's get rid of those annoying "VFS is out of sync with lock manager" messages (includes proposed patch)

On 08/12/06, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com> wrote:
> On 08/12/06, Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de> wrote:
> > On Thursday December 7, jesper.juhl@...il.com wrote:
> > >
> > > So I took Neils patch, made the change Trond suggested and the result is
> > > below.
> > >
> > > Comments?  Ok to merge?
> >
> > Yes, except that you need a changelog comment at the top.  Possibly
> > based very heavily on the text I wrote, but written to justify the
> > patch rather than to explain the bug.
> >
> > NeilBrown
> >
>
> How about this for a changelog entry?  :
>
> Convert "VFS is out of sync with lock manager!" printk in
> do_vfs_lock() to dprintk() since the message is useless in normal use
> but could possibly be useful as a debugging aid.
> Also turn off FL_SLEEP when calling do_vfs_lock() just in case after
> getting -EINTR or -ERESTARTSYS.
>
>
Ohh and btw, I forgot to mention that the patch has been tested and
resolves my original issue.

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