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Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:07:20 +0200
From: christophe barbe <christophe.barbe@lineo.fr>
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Subject: Re: uninteruptable sleep
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This problem seems to be related with the recent post from David Howells <dhowells@cambridge.redhat.com> with the subject "rw_semaphore bug".

Christophe

On mar, 03 avr 2001 18:40:53 Manfred Spraul wrote:
> > ps xl:
> >   F UID PID PPID PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TTY TIME COMMAND
> > 040 1000 1230 1 9 0 24320 4 down_w D ? 0:00
> >           /home/data/mozilla/obj/dist/bin/mozi
> >
> down_w
> 
> Perhaps down_write_failed()? 2.4.3 converted the mmap semaphore to a
> rw-sem.
> Did you compile sysrq into your kernel? Then enable it with
> 
> #echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
> and press <Alt>+<SysRQ>+'t'
> 
> It prints the complete back trace, not just one function name
> 
> --
>     Manfred
> 
> 
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