Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 11:47:37 -0700
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Marc-Christian Petersen <m.c.p@wolk-project.de>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>, kernel@kolivas.org,
       matthias.mueller@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, manish@storadinc.com,
       andrea@suse.de, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...
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On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:53:12PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, May 28 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 13:27, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Akpm,
> > 
> > > > Does the attached one make sense?
> > > Nope.
> > nm.
> > 
> > > Guys, you're the ones who can reproduce this.  Please spend more time
> > > working out which chunk (or combination thereof) actually fixes the
> > > problem.  If indeed any of them do.
> > As I said, I will test it this evening. ATM I don't have time to
> > recompile and reboot. This evening I will test extensively, even on
> > SMP, SCSI, IDE and so on.
> 
> May I ask how you are reproducing the bad results? I'm trying in vain
> here...

It might be useful to check what video hardware and X servers people are
using here.  If the behavior is just mouse freezups, the "silken mouse"
feature of XFree might have some effect, since it involves XFree binding
a signal to mouse device events.

-J
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