Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262151AbTHTTHM (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:07:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262169AbTHTTHM (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:07:12 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([63.209.29.2]:40884 "EHLO hera.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262151AbTHTTHJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:07:09 -0400 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: 2.6.0-t3: vfs/ext3 do_lookup bug?! Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:06:34 -0700 Organization: OSDL Message-ID: References: <20030820171431.0211930e.martin.zwickel@technotrend.de> <20030820113625.6a75d699.akpm@osdl.org> Reply-To: torvalds@osdl.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: build.pdx.osdl.net 1061406394 4411 172.20.1.2 (20 Aug 2003 19:06:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@osdl.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:06:34 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 947 Lines: 25 Andrew Morton wrote: > Martin Zwickel wrote: >> >> Today I wanted to check out some src-files from cvs. >> But my fault was, that I ran cvs twice at the same time. >> >> so two "cvs upd -d -A" are now in 'D' state. >> >> I think they got stuck because both tried to access the same file. > > How odd. Were they the only processes which were in D state? They are probably hung on the same semaphore, ie "dir->i_sem". They almost certainly are not deadlocked on each other: something else has either left the directory semaphore locked, or is in turn waiting for something else. Martin - do you have the _full_ list of processes available? Linus - 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/