Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:48:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:48:24 -0500 Received: from leibniz.math.psu.edu ([146.186.130.2]:30440 "EHLO math.psu.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:48:16 -0500 Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:48:15 -0500 (EST) From: Alexander Viro To: Jens Axboe cc: Nate Eldredge , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.2-ac3: loop threads in D state In-Reply-To: <20010225233957.R7830@suse.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sun, Feb 25 2001, Nate Eldredge wrote: > > Nate Eldredge writes: > > > Kernel 2.4.2-ac3. > > > > > > FLAGS UID PID PPID PRI NI SIZE RSS WCHAN STA TTY TIME COMMAND > > > 40 0 425 1 -1 -20 0 0 down DW< ? 0:00 (loop0) > > > > It looks like this has been addressed in the thread "242-ac3 loop > > bug". Jens Axboe posted a patch, but the list archive I'm reading > > mangled it. Jens, could you make this patch available somewhere, or > > at least email me a copy? (If it's going in an upcoming -ac patch, > > then don't bother; I can wait until then.) > > Patch is here, I haven't checked whether Alan put it in ac4 yet (I > did cc him, but noone knows for sure :-). Jens, you have a race in lo_clr_fd() (loop-6). I've put the fixed variant on ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/loop-S2.gz. Diff and you'll see - it's in the very beginning of the lo_clr_fd(). Cheers, Al - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/