See what you think of this. Not heavily tested yet, and not pretty... but it is fairly minimal. Pull startup and shutdown of the sync worker out of xfs_syncd_init and xfs_syncd_stop into their callers. In the case of unmount, move shutdown of the xfs_sync_worker before teardown of the log in xfs_unmountfs. This prevents occasional crashes on unmount like so: PID: 21602 TASK: ee9df060 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "kworker/0:3" #0 [c5377d28] crash_kexec at c0292c94 #1 [c5377d80] oops_end at c07090c2 #2 [c5377d98] no_context at c06f614e #3 [c5377dbc] __bad_area_nosemaphore at c06f6281 #4 [c5377df4] bad_area_nosemaphore at c06f629b #5 [c5377e00] do_page_fault at c070b0cb #6 [c5377e7c] error_code (via page_fault) at c070892c EAX: f300c6a8 EBX: f300c6a8 ECX: 000000c0 EDX: 000000c0 EBP: c5377ed0 DS: 007b ESI: 00000000 ES: 007b EDI: 00000001 GS: ffffad20 CS: 0060 EIP: c0481ad0 ERR: ffffffff EFLAGS: 00010246 #7 [c5377eb0] atomic64_read_cx8 at c0481ad0 #8 [c5377ebc] xlog_assign_tail_lsn_locked at f7cc7c6e [xfs] #9 [c5377ed4] xfs_trans_ail_delete_bulk at f7ccd520 [xfs] #10 [c5377f0c] xfs_buf_iodone at f7ccb602 [xfs] #11 [c5377f24] xfs_buf_do_callbacks at f7cca524 [xfs] #12 [c5377f30] xfs_buf_iodone_callbacks at f7cca5da [xfs] #13 [c5377f4c] xfs_buf_iodone_work at f7c718d0 [xfs] #14 [c5377f58] process_one_work at c024ee4c #15 [c5377f98] worker_thread at c024f43d #16 [c5377fbc] kthread at c025326b #17 [c5377fe8] kernel_thread_helper at c070e834 PID: 26653 TASK: e79143b0 CPU: 3 COMMAND: "umount" #0 [cde0fda0] __schedule at c0706595 #1 [cde0fe28] schedule at c0706b89 #2 [cde0fe30] schedule_timeout at c0705600 #3 [cde0fe94] __down_common at c0706098 #4 [cde0fec8] __down at c0706122 #5 [cde0fed0] down at c025936f #6 [cde0fee0] xfs_buf_lock at f7c7131d [xfs] #7 [cde0ff00] xfs_freesb at f7cc2236 [xfs] #8 [cde0ff10] xfs_fs_put_super at f7c80f21 [xfs] #9 [cde0ff1c] generic_shutdown_super at c0333d7a #10 [cde0ff38] kill_block_super at c0333e0f #11 [cde0ff48] deactivate_locked_super at c0334218 #12 [cde0ff58] deactivate_super at c033495d #13 [cde0ff68] mntput_no_expire at c034bc13 #14 [cde0ff7c] sys_umount at c034cc69 #15 [cde0ffa0] sys_oldumount at c034ccd4 #16 [cde0ffb0] system_call at c0707e66 Signed-off-by: Ben Myers <bpm@xxxxxxx> Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c =================================================================== --- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c +++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c @@ -919,6 +919,7 @@ xfs_fs_put_super( struct xfs_mount *mp = XFS_M(sb); xfs_filestream_unmount(mp); + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&mp->m_sync_work); xfs_unmountfs(mp); xfs_syncd_stop(mp); xfs_freesb(mp); @@ -1210,6 +1211,9 @@ xfs_finish_flags( return 0; } +extern void xfs_sync_worker(struct work_struct *); +extern void xfs_syncd_queue_sync(struct xfs_mount *); + STATIC int xfs_fs_fill_super( struct super_block *sb, @@ -1291,6 +1295,8 @@ xfs_fs_fill_super( set_posix_acl_flag(sb); error = xfs_syncd_init(mp); + INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&mp->m_sync_work, xfs_sync_worker); + xfs_syncd_queue_sync(mp); if (error) goto out_filestream_unmount; @@ -1315,6 +1321,7 @@ xfs_fs_fill_super( return 0; out_syncd_stop: + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&mp->m_sync_work); xfs_syncd_stop(mp); out_filestream_unmount: xfs_filestream_unmount(mp); @@ -1335,6 +1342,7 @@ out_destroy_workqueues: out_unmount: xfs_filestream_unmount(mp); xfs_unmountfs(mp); + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&mp->m_sync_work); xfs_syncd_stop(mp); goto out_free_sb; } Index: xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c =================================================================== --- xfs.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c +++ xfs/fs/xfs/xfs_sync.c @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ xfs_quiesce_attr( xfs_buf_unlock(mp->m_sb_bp); } -static void +void xfs_syncd_queue_sync( struct xfs_mount *mp) { @@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ xfs_syncd_queue_sync( * disk quotas. We might need to cover the log to indicate that the * filesystem is idle and not frozen. */ -STATIC void +void xfs_sync_worker( struct work_struct *work) { @@ -494,11 +494,8 @@ xfs_syncd_init( struct xfs_mount *mp) { INIT_WORK(&mp->m_flush_work, xfs_flush_worker); - INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&mp->m_sync_work, xfs_sync_worker); INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&mp->m_reclaim_work, xfs_reclaim_worker); - xfs_syncd_queue_sync(mp); - return 0; } @@ -506,7 +503,6 @@ void xfs_syncd_stop( struct xfs_mount *mp) { - cancel_delayed_work_sync(&mp->m_sync_work); cancel_delayed_work_sync(&mp->m_reclaim_work); cancel_work_sync(&mp->m_flush_work); } _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs