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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:43:14 -0400
From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
Organization: Red Hat
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To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Matthias Hensler <matthias@wspse.de>,
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       Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
       richard kennedy <richard@rsk.demon.co.uk>,
       Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
       Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Subject: Re: Processes spinning forever, apparently in lock_timer_base()?
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On 09/21/2007 05:39 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> 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'
> 

Unfortunately that whole thread is about fixing bugs in an already
much-changed balance_dirty_pages() in -mm.
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