Authentic Personal message at 17:43:26 on Sun Jan 20 2002 From: I've heard the truth, Mulder. Now what I want are the answers. on JOHNSTOWN.ANDREW.CMU.EDU To: kolya@ATHENA.MIT.EDU well, anyhow i should tell you i reproduced a deadlock on my vmware host, but the lock tracing patches don't work, i haven't found the problem yet but i get an oops anyhow, using printk instead i see afs_RemoveVCB and afs_FlushVCBs both tried to get afs_xvcb but i haven't traced back to figure out what was up yet. i'm still looking, this is the state i was in when i got up later: Lock afs_xserver status: (none_waiting, 1 read_locks(pid:0)) Lock afs_xvcb status: (writer_waiting, write_locked(pid:1027 at:273), 1 waiters) ** Cache entry @ 0xca98ad9c for 256.1970975876.450.15422 locks: (none_waiting, write_locked(pid:1052 at:54)) 0 bytes DV 0 refcnt 1 callback 00000000 expires 0 0 opens 0 writers normal file states (0x0) some of this may be bogus as the network had gone away a few hours later, but the xvcb deadlock is real