Subject: Re: truncate issues in 2.6.10-rc1-mm2 ?
From: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
To: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
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I don't have a reproducible case either. Just randomly happens,
once in a while - requiring a force reboot of the machine.

Thanks,
Badari

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 15:28, Nathan Scott wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 02:29:28PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I seem to be running into truncate issues on 2.6.10-rc1-mm2.
> > > Kernel compile hangs. Here is the sysrq-t output for the
> > > process. Do you know ?
> > 
> > Beats me.  If we can find a workload which reproduces it in a sane amount
> > of time I can do a binary search.
> 
> I have also had a report of this on a very recent SLES9 updates
> kernel, from looking through the patches the SUSE folks have and
> those in the -mm, the invalidate_inode_pages2 patch is in both
> so it could be the cause, but thats just a guess so far (patch
> name in -mm is invalidate_inode_pages-mmap-coherency-fix.patch).
> 
> I don't have a reproducible test case yet either.
> 
> cheers.

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