[OpenAFS-devel] Old problem finally fixed: LINUX deadlock when fstrace active on SMP

chas williams - CONTRACTOR chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:11:04 -0400


In message <42636CBD.3030503@pclella.cern.ch>,Rainer Toebbicke writes:
>As it did not occur to me immediately how to fix this reliably, the 
>attached patch bluntly disables tracing in that routine for SMP kernels.

perhaps the logging facility should have its own lock independent of 
afs_glock.