Robert Love wrote: > Below is inotify, diffed against 2.6.11. > > I greatly reworked much of the data structures and their interactions, > to lay the groundwork for sanitizing the locking. I then, I hope, > sanitized the locking. It looks right, I am happy. Comments welcome. > I surely could of missed something. Maybe even something big. > > But, regardless, this release is a huge jump from the previous, fixing > all known issues and greatly improving the locking. >
Inotify 0.22 severly destabilized my 2.6.11 system when it was in use. The system would get into a state where it was unable to spawn new processes, the desktop would hang, and the only way to shut down would be to do a hard reset. This only happened when inotify was in use after gamin started up. I was only able to get the following out of the logs(not every time though): c017b901 Modules linked in: radeon deflate zlib_deflate twofish serpent aes_i586 blowfish sha256 sha1 crypto_null af_key parport_pc lp parport 8250_pci 8250 serial_core usbhid ohci_hcd ohci1394 ieee1394 yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic suspend_text CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[inotify_ignore+49/224] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.11.6-nx9005) EIP is at inotify_ignore+0x31/0xe0 eax: 00000000 ebx: e88544e0 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: 00000000 edi: e88544e0 ebp: e8760000 esp: e8761f20 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process gam_server (pid: 6640, threadinfo=e8760000 task=ed19e060) Stack: e88544e8 000000f6 e88544e0 fffffff2 fffffff7 c017bace e88544e0 000000f6 00000004 000000f6 00000292 00000000 08098e54 80045102 fffffff7 c01685a8 e5d584c0 80045102 08098e54 c0456118 00000000 e5d584c0 c0168785 e5d584c0 Call Trace: [inotify_ioctl+286/288] inotify_ioctl+0x11e/0x120 [do_ioctl+104/128] do_ioctl+0x68/0x80 [vfs_ioctl+101/464] vfs_ioctl+0x65/0x1d0 [sys_ioctl+69/144] sys_ioctl+0x45/0x90 [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: 10 89 5c 24 08 89 74 24 0c 8b 7c 24 18 ff 4f 28 0f 88 95 03 00 00 8b 44 24 1c 89 44 24 04 8d 47 08 89 04 24 e8 11 89 0b 00 89 c6 <ff> 40 10 ff 47 28 0f 8e 81 03 00 00 85 f6 b8 ea ff ff ff 74 6e Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/