on den 14.09.2005 Klokka 21:10 (-0400) skreiv Marc Horowitz: > Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> on den 14.09.2005 Klokka 11:51 (+0900) skreiv Horms: > >> > Hi Marc, > >> > > >> > would is be possible to test linux-image-2.6.12-1-686-smp from > >> > unstable to see if this problem persists? I am CCing the NFS > >> > maintainer and LKML as this looks reasonably nasty and they > >> > may be interested in looking into it. > >> > > >> > >> I doubt this has anything to do with NFS. We should no longer have a > >> sync_page VFS method in the 2.6 kernels. What other filesystems is the > >> user running? > > In the stack trace I sent, from a running 2.6.11 kernel, vfs_read > appears to be the vfs method, not sync_page. sync_page is called much > deeper in the stack trace.
So? It is clearly the call to sync_page that is Oopsing. The NFS call is just trying to lock a page that appears to be owned by someone else. That triggers a call to that filesystem's sync_page, which then goes on to do a page allocation, which again Oopses. Cheers, Trond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
