[OpenAFS] heavy troubles with openafs 1.3.79 and kernel 2.6.11

chas williams - CONTRACTOR chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Fri, 18 Mar 2005 10:24:59 -0500


In message <4239A851.6070608@inria.fr>,Guillaume Rousse writes:
>EIP is at __inode_queue_event+0x18/0x60
>eax: f33c1000   ebx: fffffff8   ecx: f33c1000   edx: 00000000
>esi: 00000004   edi: 00000020   ebp: e8d3bf8c   esp: e8d3bf74
>ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
>Process ls (pid: 7025, threadinfo=e8d3a000 task=ea79c530)

this is pretty telling.  __inode_queue_event doesnt exist in any
of the 'standard' kernels so it seems like a new thing.  a google
search shows one hit from the lkml:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/3/8/187

it seems to add some members to the inode struct, a list and a spinlock.
both of these are going to need to be inited since the auther apparenty
didnt put them in init_inode_once().  the changes openafs needs would be
similar to any of the ones in the past.  detect that member in at  
configure time and initialize it in afs_vcache.c -- see the list 
archives about how i_sb_list was handled.