Re: locking typo in ext4_mb_add_n_trim()

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> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:16:59AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> > 
> > although I wonder why we don't trip over this in spinlock debugging
> > (seems like it'd lead to a double unlock at times)  I wonder if we can
> > tie this to any other bugs we've seen.
> 
> I was wondering if it could be tied to the "rm -rf" soft lockup hang....
> 
> I wonder if vendor kernels (specifically, Ubuntu in this case) disable
> spinlock debugging, which is why we wouldn't have seen the double
> unlock warning.  (Or maybe it happened earlier in the log, and users
> didn't notice it).
  Don't know about Ubuntu but SUSE has definitely turned off spinlock
debugging (I guess because it may cost some performance) and most other
debug stuff.

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SuSE CR Labs
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