[OpenAFS] Problem with 1.3.81 on kernel-2.6.11-1.14

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Mon, 18 Apr 2005 10:17:12 -0400 (EDT)


On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, William John Murray wrote:

> Hello there,
>            I see different symptoms from the osi_cache problem above. I am 
> using
> 1.3.81 on Fedora Core 3, kernel 2.6.11-1.14 Disk is ext3, the ntfs driver is 
> also loaded.
> I start afs fine, but the first 'ls' freezes the system entirely. There is 
> nothing
> in the log.
>  If I start AFS and then shutdown, I get a more helpful crash from 'umount'
> Last line is:
> <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: fs/fs-writeback.c:96: 
> spin_lock(fs/inode.c:c03c01b0) already lockedby lib/dec_and_lock.c/32. 
> (Tainted: P     )
>
> I applied the patch for osi_cache, but it seems irrelevant.
>  Any ideas, anyone?

Does the patch in the cvs head for the additional inode semaphore help?