On Tue, Apr 02 2013, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, Apr 02 2013, Dave Chinner wrote: > > [Added jens Axboe to CC] > > > > On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 02:08:49AM -0400, CAI Qian wrote: > > > Saw on almost all the servers range from x64, ppc64 and s390x with kernel > > > 3.9-rc5 and xfsprogs-3.1.10. Never caught this in 3.9-rc4, so looks like > > > something new broke this. Log is here with sysrq debug info. > > > http://people.redhat.com/qcai/stable/log > > CAI Qian, can you try and back the below out and test again? Nevermind, it's clearly that one. The below should improve the situation, but it's not pretty. A better fix would be to allow auto-deletion even if PART_NO_SCAN is set. diff --git a/drivers/block/loop.c b/drivers/block/loop.c index fe5f640..d6c5764 100644 --- a/drivers/block/loop.c +++ b/drivers/block/loop.c @@ -1057,14 +1057,15 @@ static int loop_clr_fd(struct loop_device *lo) struct disk_part_iter piter; struct hd_struct *part; - mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, 1); - invalidate_partition(bdev->bd_disk, 0); - disk_part_iter_init(&piter, bdev->bd_disk, - DISK_PITER_INCL_EMPTY); - while ((part = disk_part_iter_next(&piter))) - delete_partition(bdev->bd_disk, part->partno); - disk_part_iter_exit(&piter); - mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex); + if (mutex_trylock(&bdev->bd_mutex, 1)) + invalidate_partition(bdev->bd_disk, 0); + disk_part_iter_init(&piter, bdev->bd_disk, + DISK_PITER_INCL_EMPTY); + while ((part = disk_part_iter_next(&piter))) + delete_partition(bdev->bd_disk, part->partno); + disk_part_iter_exit(&piter); + mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex); + } } /* -- Jens Axboe _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs