From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750702AbWG2WSx (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:18:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750703AbWG2WSw (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:18:52 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.168]:36083 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750702AbWG2WSv (ORCPT ); Sat, 29 Jul 2006 18:18:51 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Pu2pbi8me4bcr6mfhZ5EuyyP4yzoyUPQA2zg3BCr+Mh+n13uzRxPlClEMQx1gRNuwXYGJ1C/Wa3AqE2dPNIXTjrHUR80wBErOeS+uhqgUSVbqTSwqRLRQIVEjzMXNsJAg5nhA3mhqRqtL9q06OyAaruS5VSF+uvS1Gjl09OCkfs= Message-ID: <9a8748490607291518m59573244wac00486a64f6385b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 00:18:50 +0200 From: "Jesper Juhl" To: "Jesper Juhl" , "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Hans Reiser" , "Alexander Viro" , "Al Viro" , reiserfs-dev@namesys.com, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: possible recursive locking detected - while running fs operations in loops - 2.6.18-rc2-git5 In-Reply-To: <20060725232924.GU6452@schatzie.adilger.int> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <9a8748490607251516j1433306ek9c64cc84c0838f7b@mail.gmail.com> <20060725232924.GU6452@schatzie.adilger.int> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 26/07/06, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On Jul 26, 2006 00:16 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > What I did to provoke it was to run 6 different xterms (with a bash > > shell) with the following loops in them in a test directory that was > > initially empty : > > > > xterm1: while true; do mkdir a; done > > xterm2: while true; do rmdir a; done > > xterm3: while true; do touch a/foo; done > > xterm4: while true; do find .; done > > xterm5: while true; do sync; sleep 1; done > > xterm6: while true; do rm -r a; done > > See racer test at ftp.lustre.org/pub/benchmarks/racer-lustre.tar.gz > > It does the above, but a bunch more things and is a truly pathalogical > test script that does lots of "stupid user tricks", unlike normal tests > which are only doing operations that expect to be successful. > > PS - during the racer.sh test run "rm" is known to segfault after hitting > an internal assertion, nobody is sure why. > PPS- I don't know who wrote this program, it was originally posted by > someone not the author to linux-fsdevel or something. > Thanks. That's a nice little test suite. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html