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Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:00:26 -0700
From: manish <manish@storadinc.com>
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To: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>
CC: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
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       William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...
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Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

>On Tuesday 27 May 2003 20:33, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
>Hi Marcelo,
>
>>It seems your "fix-pausing" patch is fixing a potential wakeup
>>miss, right? (I looked quickly throught it). Could you explain me the
>>problem its trying to fix and how?
>>
>Please have also a look here:
>
>http://hypermail.idiosynkrasia.net/linux-kernel/archived/2002/week45/0305.html
>
>ciao, Marc
>
Hello !

I applied the fix-pausing-2 patch to the 2.4.20 kernel. This time on, 
the stack trace:

sys_write
generic_file_write
ext2_get_group_desc
bread
__wait_on_buffer
schedule


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