On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:46:39 +1000 Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:27:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:45:13 +1000 > > Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hi Andrew, Al, > > > > > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:20:42 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > > Bug is still there. Reverting ""Make ->drop_inode() just return > > > > whether inode needs to be dropped" makes it go away. > > > > > > > > Al, please don't just dump crap in linux-next and then ignore bug reports. > > > > People are trying to get work done here. > > > > > > I will revert that commit in linux-next today if it is still there (and > > > not fixed). > > > > Reverting the patch didn't help - the patch moved the BUG_ON() from > > generic_delete_inode() into __iput_final(). With the patch reverted > > the kernel still goes BUG over the same test in generic_delete_inode(). > > > > It could be that the bug was caused by fs-writeback.c changes. David, > > do you have time to take a look at this? > > I'll have a look at it. Thanks. > What filesystem(s) are you seeing this on? ext3 at least. > Any particular workload that triggers it? Booting FC6 :( I get an enormous storm of these things. whee, progress! With Rusty's patch for the modules bug, and reverting Greg Vandal-Hartman's "driver core: remove CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED" and deleting the BUG_ON from generic_delete_inode(), I have a login prompt! Admittedly I don't have any networking any more, but that seems a minor quibble. What a clusterfsck. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html