Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756917AbXIUJj4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:39:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753613AbXIUJjq (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:39:46 -0400 Received: from hellhawk.shadowen.org ([80.68.90.175]:1084 "EHLO hellhawk.shadowen.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753558AbXIUJjp (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:39:45 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:39:14 +0100 From: Andy Whitcroft To: Andrew Morton Cc: Chuck Ebbert , Matthias Hensler , linux-kernel , Thomas Gleixner , richard kennedy , Peter Zijlstra , Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: Processes spinning forever, apparently in lock_timer_base()? Message-ID: <20070921093914.GB4750@shadowen.org> References: <46B10BB7.60900@redhat.com> <20070803113407.0b04d44e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070804084426.GA20464@kobayashi-maru.wspse.de> <20070809095943.GA7763@kobayashi-maru.wspse.de> <20070809095534.25ae1c42.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46F2E103.8000907@redhat.com> <20070920142927.d87ab5af.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070920142927.d87ab5af.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-SPF-Guess: neutral Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 536 Lines: 13 This sounds an awful lot like the same problem I reported with fsck hanging. I believe that Hugh had a candidate patch for that, which was related to dirty tracking limits. It seems that that patch tested, and acked by Peter. All on lkml under: 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 -- mkfs stuck in 'D' -apw - 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/