Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

[manish]

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

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>On Tue, 27 May 2003, manish wrote:
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>>Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
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>>>On Tuesday 27 May 2003 20:33, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>>>
>>>Hi Marcelo,
>>>
>>>>It seems your "fix-pausing" patch is fixing a potential wakeup
>>>>miss, right? (I looked quickly throught it). Could you explain me the
>>>>problem its trying to fix and how?
>>>>
>>>Please have also a look here:
>>>
>>>http://hypermail.idiosynkrasia.net/linux-kernel/archived/2002/week45/0305.html
>>>
>>>ciao, Marc
>>>
>>Hello !
>>
>>I applied the fix-pausing-2 patch to the 2.4.20 kernel. This time on,
>>the stack trace:
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>>sys_write
>>generic_file_write
>>ext2_get_group_desc
>>bread
>>__wait_on_buffer
>>schedule
>>
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>Huh? You mean bonnie still deadlocks or ?
>
Well, this is to the kernel that has the io_request_lock removed. The 
stock kernel (with the fix-pausing-2 patch) is running fine upto now. 
However, we will have to give it a few hrs of runtime.

Thanks
Manish