On 2012/7/4 15:32, Joel Becker wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 09:51:22PM -0800, Srinivas Eeda wrote:
>> When ocfs2dc thread holds dc_task_lock spinlock and receives soft IRQ it
>> deadlock itself trying to get same spinlock in ocfs2_wake_downconvert_thread.
>> Below is the stack snippet.
>>
>> The patch disables interrupts when acquiring dc_task_lock spinlock.
>>
>>      ocfs2_wake_downconvert_thread
>>      ocfs2_rw_unlock
>>      ocfs2_dio_end_io
>>      dio_complete
>>      .....
>>      bio_endio
>>      req_bio_endio
>>      ....
>>      scsi_io_completion
>>      blk_done_softirq
>>      __do_softirq
>>      do_softirq
>>      irq_exit
>>      do_IRQ
>>      ocfs2_downconvert_thread
>>      [kthread]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Srinivas Eeda <srinivas.e...@oracle.com>
> 
> This patch is now (finally) part of the 'fixes' branch of ocfs2.git.
> 


Recently we hit this bug too, and planned to send exactly the same fix..

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