linux-kernel - Re: -mm: xfs lockdep warning

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Message-ID: <20101005181729.GA30877@lst.de>
Date:	Tue, 5 Oct 2010 14:17:29 -0400
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To:	Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@...glemail.com>
Cc:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Yang Ruirui <ruirui.r.yang@...to.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Alex Elder <aelder@....com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: -mm: xfs lockdep warning

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 08:09:58PM +0200, Torsten Kaiser wrote:
> Here is the complete log from bootup until the hang happened the second time.
> I just logged into KDE and then started the upgrade of KOffice, which
> meant that the package manager started to compile 4 programs each with
> -j5. After a few minutes the load got to ~18 and probably at the point
> where filecache and GCCs filled up my 4GB RAM the system got stuck.
> The mouse so longer moved and SysRq+S did not work. The log was
> captured via serial console on a second system.
> 
> I will try tomorrow with frame pointers enabled..

Lots of hangs in sync_page and dm-crypt in the stack is unfortunately
something we've seen quite a few times, and it usually points to that
layer.  In the best case we might just have a similar workqueue priority
issue somewhere in the dm-crypt or maybe just md code. 

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