Although I can't reproduce it now, it really happened that some lock manager started grace period but didn't end it. This causes an lm entry be left in grace_list, and when service nfs restart, the same lm will be added again into the list. As you know, adding an entry, which is in the list, to a list will leads to list corruption. The following is the dmesg information: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at lib/list_debug.c:26 __list_add+0x27/0x5c() Hardware name: Presario M2000 (PT365PA#AB2) list_add corruption. next->prev should be prev (ef8fe958), but was ef8ff128. (next=ef8ff128). Modules linked in: fuse i915 drm i2c_algo_bit nfsd lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss exportfs sunrpc ipv6 p4_clockmod dm_multipath uinput snd_intel8x0m snd_intel8x0 snd_seq_dummy snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore 8139cp firewire_ohci firewire_core snd_page_alloc tifm_7xx1 i2c_i801 iTCO_wdt 8139too tifm_core i2c_core yenta_socket crc_itu_t iTCO_vendor_support pcspkr mii rsrc_nonstatic wmi video output ata_generic pata_acpi [last unloaded: microcode] Pid: 23062, comm: lockd Tainted: G W 2.6.30-rc2 #3 Call Trace: [<c042d5b5>] warn_slowpath+0x71/0xa0 [<c0422a96>] ? update_curr+0x11d/0x125 [<c044b12d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x18/0x150 [<c044b270>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0xd [<c051c61a>] ? _raw_spin_lock+0x53/0xfa [<c051c89f>] __list_add+0x27/0x5c [<ef8f6daa>] locks_start_grace+0x22/0x30 [lockd] [<ef8f34da>] set_grace_period+0x39/0x53 [lockd] [<c06b8921>] ? lock_kernel+0x1c/0x28 [<ef8f3558>] lockd+0x64/0x164 [lockd] [<c044b12d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x18/0x150 [<c04227b0>] ? complete+0x34/0x3e [<ef8f34f4>] ? lockd+0x0/0x164 [lockd] [<ef8f34f4>] ? lockd+0x0/0x164 [lockd] [<c043dd42>] kthread+0x45/0x6b [<c043dcfd>] ? kthread+0x0/0x6b [<c0403c23>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 ---[ end trace fa484bd6d19ade89 ]--- NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory NFSD: starting 90-second grace period ------------------------ To prevent list corruption, don't add entry which is already in the list and do WARN. Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/lockd/grace.c | 9 ++++++++++ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/lockd/grace.c b/fs/lockd/grace.c index 183cc1f..80becb7 100644 --- a/fs/lockd/grace.c +++ b/fs/lockd/grace.c @@ -21,8 +21,17 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(grace_lock); */ void locks_start_grace(struct lock_manager *lm) { + struct lock_manager *each; + spin_lock(&grace_lock); + if (!list_empty(&lm->list)) { + WARN(1, "lock manager(%p) exists. locks_start_grace() " + "and locks_end_grace() were not called pairly." + "\n", lm); + goto unlock; + } list_add(&lm->list, &grace_list); +unlock: spin_unlock(&grace_lock); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(locks_start_grace); -- 1.6.0.6 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html