linux-kernel - Re: Fwd: Deadlock warning in 3.3-rc4 in zcache code when running transmission-gtk

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Message-ID: <4F451B02.8030201@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Feb 2012 10:42:42 -0600
From:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Alex Villacís Lasso 
	<a_villacis@...osanto.com>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dan Magenheimer <dan.magenheimer@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: Fwd: Deadlock warning in 3.3-rc4 in zcache code when running
 transmission-gtk

On 02/22/2012 10:20 AM, Alex Villacís Lasso wrote:
> I am getting (potential?) deadlock warnings in zcache code shortly after 
> running transmission-gtk, the bittorrent client. My / partition is ext4, 
> and /home and /DATA (where some torrents are stored) are ext3 mounted 
> with ext4 subsystem. The warning has triggered twice so far, always 
> after running transmission-gtk.
> 
> Fedora 16 x86_64, vanilla linux 3.3-rc4.
> Deadlock warning did not appear in 3.3-rc3.

This may have already been identified and fixed by this patch:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/20/155

Let me know if that doesn't fix it.

--
Seth

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