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This patch plugs a race between the downconvert thread and an unlock ast message. Specifically, after the downconvert worker has done its task, the dc thread needs to check whether an unlock ast made the downconvert moot. Reported-by: David Teigland <teigland at redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran at oracle.com> Acked-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh at sus.com> ---

This email is also sent to cluster-devel at redhat.com. Since this issue is about both dlm and ocfs2, I send the email here to look for help from upstream. This is an already known issue. on ocfs2 with user space cluster stack, run the test script from http://people.redhat.com/~teigland/make_panic on the mounted ocfs2 volume from 2 nodes simultaneously, the access to ocfs2 volume on both nodes

David, So here are the two patches. Remove all patches that you have and apply these. The first one is straight forward. The second one will hopefully fix the livelock issue you have been encountering. People reviewing the patches should note that the second one is slightly different than the one I posted earlier. It removes the BUG_ON in the if condition where we jump to update_holders. The

Using fsdlm/ocfs2_controld.cman, I've rerun the test I've been having problems with on 2.6.30-rc1. After running for several minutes in the same directory on three nodes, the test hangs, and I collect the following information: bull-01 ------- 3053 S< [ocfs2dc] ocfs2_downconvert_thread 3054 S< [dlm_astd] dlm_astd 3055 S< [dlm_scand] dlm_scand 3056 S< [dlm_recv/0] worker_thread 3057 S< [dlm_recv/1] worker_thread 3058 S< [dlm_recv/2]...

Sorry i don`t copy everything: TEST-MAIL1# echo "ls //orphan_dir:0000"|debugfs.ocfs2 /dev/dm-0|wc debugfs.ocfs2 1.6.4 5239722 26198604 246266859 TEST-MAIL1# echo "ls //orphan_dir:0001"|debugfs.ocfs2 /dev/dm-0|wc debugfs.ocfs2 1.6.4 6074335 30371669 285493670 TEST-MAIL2 ~ # echo "ls //orphan_dir:0000"|debugfs.ocfs2 /dev/dm-0|wc debugfs.ocfs2 1.6.4 5239722 26198604