[Linux-cluster] Freeze with cluster-2.03.11

[Kadlecsik Jozsef]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2009, Kadlecsik Jozsef wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Wendy Cheng wrote:
> 
> > Kadlecsik Jozsef wrote:
> > > There are three different netconsole log recordings at
> > > http://www.kfki.hu/~kadlec/gfs/
> > One of the new console logs has a good catch (netconsole0.txt): you *do* have
> > a deadlock as the CPUs are spinning waiting for spin lock. This seems to be
> > more to do with the changes made via bugzilla 466645. I think RHEL version
> > that has the subject patch will have the same issue as well.
> 
> You mean the part of the patch
> 
> @@ -1503,6 +1503,15 @@ gfs_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, struct dentry *dentry, struct
>         error = gfs_glock_nq_init(ip->i_gl, LM_ST_SHARED, LM_FLAG_ANY, &gh);
>         if (!error) {
>                 generic_fillattr(inode, stat);
> +               if (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && dentry->d_parent 
> +                   && dentry->d_parent->d_inode) {
> +                       p_inode = igrab(dentry->d_parent->d_inode);
> +                       if (p_inode) {
> +                               pi = get_v2ip(p_inode);
> +                               pi->i_dir_stats++;
> +                               iput(p_inode);
> +                       }
> +               }
>                 gfs_glock_dq_uninit(&gh);
>         }
>  
> might cause a deadlock: if the parent directory inode is already locked, 
> then this part will wait infinitely to get the lock, isn't it?
> 
> If I open a directory and then stat a file in it, is that enough to 
> trigger the deadlock?

No, that's too simple and should have came out much earlier, the patch is 
from Nov 6 2008. Something like creating files in a directory by one 
process and statting at the same time by another one, in a loop?

Best regards,
Jozsef
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