Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423102AbWJRWoS (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:44:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423104AbWJRWoS (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:44:18 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:32732 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423102AbWJRWoR (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:44:17 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:44:02 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: Nick Piggin , lkml Subject: Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm1 Message-Id: <20061018154402.ef49874a.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1161194303.18117.17.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> References: <20061016230645.fed53c5b.akpm@osdl.org> <1161185599.18117.1.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <45364CE9.7050002@yahoo.com.au> <1161191747.18117.9.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> <45366515.4050308@yahoo.com.au> <1161194303.18117.17.camel@dyn9047017100.beaverton.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1270 Lines: 35 On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 10:58:23 -0700 Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > No. seems to be generic issue .. (happens with ext3 also) :( > > > > I think I may have missed a fix for ext3 ordered and journalled too > > (I've just sent a patch to Andrew privately). > > > > Sorry. Can you try with ext2? Alternatively, try with ext3 or reiserfs > > and change the line in mm/filemap.c:generic_file_buffered_write from > > > > status = a_ops->commit_write(file, page, offset, offset+copied); > > to > > status = a_ops->commit_write(file, page, offset, offset+bytes); > > > > and see if that solves your problem (that will result in rubbish being > > temporarily visible, but there is a similar problem upstream anyway, so it > > shouldn't cause other failures in your test). > > No. Above change didn't help either :( > > Thanks, > Badari > > BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#1! We should have got an all-CPU backtrace via the fancy new trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() thing. Is the NMI watchdog ticking over? - 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/