[Eric Sandeen - Wed, May 30, 2007 at 05:22:23PM -0500]
| Eric Sandeen wrote:
|
| > Jan, something seems busted here. I'm getting lockups when testing udf
| > on a single cpu with this last patch in place...
| >
| > I think it's the BKL stumbling on itself.
|
| To demonstrate, try this:
|
| # BIGFILENAME=`seq -s '' 1 1000`
| # ln -s $BIGFILENAME foo
|
| instant deadlock :(
|
| -Eric
|
Eric, could you please try the following:
1) declare the spinlock in the top of inode.c as
DEFINE_SPINLOCK(udf_drop_lock);
2) replace in udf_drop_inode()
kernel_lock -> spin_lock(&udf_drop_lock);
kernel_unlock -> spin_unlock(&udf_drop_lock);
I'm not sure if it help but you may try ;)
Cyrill
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