Re: mount hanging 2.4.12

Ed Tomlinson (tomlins@CAM.ORG)
Sun, 14 Oct 2001 10:23:58 -0400


On October 14, 2001 09:48 am, you wrote:
> On Sunday, October 14, 2001 01:46:19 AM -0400 Alexander Viro
>
> <viro@math.psu.edu> wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, Alexander Viro wrote:
> >> Deadlocks on lock_super(). I don't see any changes in that
> >> area, though...
> >
> > Erm, wait... What patches do you have applied? After a second look
> > at your objdump it seems that you've got spinlocks turned into
> > semaphores. What the hell is going on there?
>
> Ed, does this hang happen without the new reiserfs snapshot locking patch
> applied?

I have not tried it Chris, Al seem puzzled about what was locking.
Then I remembers you seeming a little leary of using a sem in the vfs
locking stuff...

I will backout the vfs locking stuff and see what happens.

Ed
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