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SubjectRe: [RFT PATCH] blkio: alloc per cpu data from worker thread context( Re: kvm deadlock)
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On Dec 15, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> Ok, I continued to develop on the patch which tries to allocate per cpu
> stats from worker thread context. Here is the patch.
>
> Can the reporter please try out the patch and see if it helps. I am not
> sure if deadlock was because of mutex issue or not, but it should help
> get rid of lockdep warning.
>
> This patch is on top of for-3.3/core branch of jens's linux-block tree.
> If it does not apply on your kernel version, do let me know the version
> you are testing with and I will generate another version of patch.
>
> If testing results are good, I will break down the patch in small pieces
> and post as a series separately.
>
> Thanks
> Vivek

Running on a fedora-16 box with the patch applied to the linux-block tree I still had deadlocks. In fact it seemed to happen much faster and with ligher workloads.

I was able to get netconsole setup and a full stacktrace is posted here:

http://pastebin.com/9Rq68exU

Nate



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