Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261312AbTE1Wtp (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 18:49:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261414AbTE1Wto (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 18:49:44 -0400 Received: from c17870.thoms1.vic.optusnet.com.au ([210.49.248.224]:63662 "EHLO mail.kolivas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261312AbTE1Wti (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 May 2003 18:49:38 -0400 From: Con Kolivas To: Elladan , Jens Axboe Subject: Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ... Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 09:03:42 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: Marc-Christian Petersen , Andrew Morton , matthias.mueller@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de, manish@storadinc.com, andrea@suse.de, marcelo@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3ED2DE86.2070406@storadinc.com> <20030528125312.GV845@suse.de> <20030528184737.GA2726@eskimo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030528184737.GA2726@eskimo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305290903.42996.kernel@kolivas.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1478 Lines: 41 On Thu, 29 May 2003 04:47, Elladan wrote: > 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. Xfree 3.3.6, 4.2,4.3 Drivers nvidia, nv, sis, sisfb, vesa, vesafb are the drivers on the machines where I've seen it happen so far - ie without discrimination. Con - 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/