On Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:19:44 -0800 (PST), Linus Torvalds wrote: > In order to not get in trouble with MADR ("Mothers Against Drunk > Releases") I decided to cut the 2.6.20-rc3 release early rather than wait [...] > At which point the first thing on any self-respecting geek's mind should > obviously be: "is there a new kernel release for me to try?"
2.6.20-rc3 produces the following lockdep warning when hald is started during system startup: ============================================= [ INFO: possible recursive locking detected ] 2.6.20-rc3-noinitrd #0 --------------------------------------------- hald-subfs-moun/4608 is trying to acquire lock: (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c035bb02>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f but task is already holding lock: (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c035bb02>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f other info that might help us debug this: 3 locks held by hald-subfs-moun/4608: #0: (&inode->i_mutex){--..}, at: [<c035bb02>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f #1: (&REISERFS_I(inode)->xattr_sem){----}, at: [<c01c0098>] reiserfs_setxattr+0x51/0xe9 #2: (&REISERFS_SB(s)->xattr_dir_sem){----}, at: [<c01c00be>] reiserfs_setxattr+0x77/0xe9 stack backtrace: [<c0103c72>] show_trace_log_lvl+0x19/0x2e [<c0103d6b>] show_trace+0x12/0x14 [<c0103d81>] dump_stack+0x14/0x16 [<c01303b3>] __lock_acquire+0x116/0xa5c [<c0130fe6>] lock_acquire+0x56/0x70 [<c035b95c>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0xdc/0x266 [<c035bb02>] mutex_lock+0x1c/0x1f [<c01c07d0>] reiserfs_xattr_set+0xe4/0x2c0 [<c01c0c21>] trusted_set+0x74/0x80 [<c01c00e9>] reiserfs_setxattr+0xa2/0xe9 [<c0177b45>] vfs_setxattr+0xa6/0x1ff [<c0177d57>] setxattr+0xb9/0xd1 [<c0177e14>] sys_lsetxattr+0x3e/0x50 [<c0102d9a>] sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x99 ======================= I guess it's really the same ReiserFS issue I already reported for the previous releases, just triggered at an earlier point in the system's life. Other than that, everything seems fine and dandy on this plain old P3. HTH, and Happy New Year everyone Tilman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/