Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263129AbTE0S5O (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 14:57:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263274AbTE0S5O (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 14:57:14 -0400 Received: from adsl-67-122-203-155.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([67.122.203.155]:447 "EHLO ext.storadinc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263129AbTE0S5N (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 14:57:13 -0400 Message-ID: <3ED3B805.9050005@storadinc.com> Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:09:57 -0700 From: manish User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020408 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcelo Tosatti CC: Marc-Christian Petersen , Andrea Arcangeli , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger , Christian Klose , William Lee Irwin III Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ... References: <3ED2DE86.2070406@storadinc.com> <20030527182547.GG3767@dualathlon.random> <200305272039.18330.m.c.p@wolk-project.de> <3ED3B5CA.7050001@storadinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1214 Lines: 50 Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > >On Tue, 27 May 2003, manish wrote: > >>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 >> > >Huh? You mean bonnie still deadlocks or ? > Well, this is to the kernel that has the io_request_lock removed. The stock kernel (with the fix-pausing-2 patch) is running fine upto now. However, we will have to give it a few hrs of runtime. Thanks Manish - 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/