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

[William John Murray]

Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> 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?
>
Yes! It fixes it completely.
Thank you very much, many apologies for not looking harder first.
      Bill Murray