Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750763AbVJTShg (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:37:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750793AbVJTShg (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:37:36 -0400 Received: from ms004msg.fastwebnet.it ([213.140.2.58]:11668 "EHLO ms004msg.fastwebnet.it") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750763AbVJTShg (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:37:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:37:24 +0200 From: Mattia Dongili To: Chris Boot Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Reiser4 lockups (no oops) Message-ID: <20051020183724.GA3999@inferi.kami.home> Mail-Followup-To: Chris Boot , Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <43567D80.3050304@bootc.net> <20051020131815.GI2811@suse.de> <20051020163425.z7wygjyir8lcw0gk@horde.fusednetworks.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051020163425.z7wygjyir8lcw0gk@horde.fusednetworks.co.uk> X-Message-Flag: Cranky? Try Free Software instead! X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.14-rc4-mm1-2 i686 X-Editor: Vim http://www.vim.org/ X-Disclaimer: Buh! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1462 Lines: 38 On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:34:25PM +0100, Chris Boot wrote: > Quoting Jens Axboe : > > >On Wed, Oct 19 2005, Chris Boot wrote: > >>I don't get any OOPSes or BUGs or anything, not on my screen nor on my > >>serial console (although I'm not sure I have this working right--I only > >>seem to get kernel boot messages). Machine replies to pings but I can't > > > >Easy fix for that is probably to kill klogd on the machine. Test with eg > >loading/unloading of loop, that prints a message when it loads. > > I'd love to, but the machine is locked solid and won't turn on the display > or > switch TTYs or anything. Anyway, I've applied reiser4-fix-livelock.patch > from > ftp.namesys.org and so far so good (over night). aah! nice, those also fix the apt-get freeze I've been having from some mm kernels ago. I also managed to get the trace of apt-get freezing by means of Sysrq+P but I stupidly forgot the fs was readonly so I didn't dump dmesg :P I can easily reproduce it if anyone is interested. > I see there's now a reiser4-fix-livelock-2.patch, anybody know the > differences? don't know, I'd try the -2 patches also, they seem a different version of the same fix/cleanup. -- mattia :wq! - 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/