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

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Message-ID: <4F46557B.9080901@palosanto.com>
Date:	Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:04:27 -0500
From:	Alex Villacís Lasso 
	<a_villacis@...osanto.com>
To:	Seth Jennings <sjenning@...ux.vnet.ibm.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

El 22/02/12 11:42, Seth Jennings escribió:
> 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
>
The patch indeed fixes the bug.
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