Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263315AbTE0S7t (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 14:59:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263310AbTE0S7t (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 14:59:49 -0400 Received: from adsl-67-122-203-155.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net ([67.122.203.155]:6847 "EHLO ext.storadinc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263315AbTE0S7r (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 May 2003 14:59:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3ED3B899.6070804@storadinc.com> Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 12:12:25 -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: 1618 Lines: 66 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 ? > At the time the processes get stuck: [root@dyn-10-123-130-235 vm]# more /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 3709870080 3699126272 10743808 0 18313216 3531255808 Swap: 1077501952 0 1077501952 MemTotal: 3622920 kB MemFree: 10492 kB MemShared: 0 kB Buffers: 17884 kB Cached: 3448492 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 25252 kB Inactive: 3445344 kB HighTotal: 2752512 kB HighFree: 2120 kB LowTotal: 870408 kB LowFree: 8372 kB SwapTotal: 1052248 kB SwapFree: 1052248 kB - 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/