Re: spin_lock on SCSI

["goetz@xxxxxxxxxxx" <goetz@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanx, will try it - give me some time to go through the build - coming 
back later

Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Hi,
> :backtrace available at
> :http://www.net-amp.com/test/dump/
> :backtrace above is from fresh install with 2.8.2 CD SMP
> :...
> :happens when starting heavy IO - in this case git pull :-(
>
>     Excellent, that backtrace was very useful.
>
>     Here is an untested kernel source patch for you to try.  You do need
>     to compile up a kernel to test this.  A spinlock was being held
>     through a softupdates callback.  The problem only occurs when running
>     on UFS (and since most of us run on HAMMER we didn't notice).
>
>     fetch http://apollo.backplane.com/DFlyMisc/vfs01.patch
>
> 						-Matt
>
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