Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

[Con Kolivas]

On Thu, 29 May 2003 04:47, Elladan wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:53:12PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Wed, May 28 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 28 May 2003 13:27, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi Akpm,
> > >
> > > > > Does the attached one make sense?
> > > >
> > > > Nope.
> > >
> > > nm.
> > >
> > > > Guys, you're the ones who can reproduce this.  Please spend more time
> > > > working out which chunk (or combination thereof) actually fixes the
> > > > problem.  If indeed any of them do.
> > >
> > > As I said, I will test it this evening. ATM I don't have time to
> > > recompile and reboot. This evening I will test extensively, even on
> > > SMP, SCSI, IDE and so on.
> >
> > May I ask how you are reproducing the bad results? I'm trying in vain
> > here...
>
> It might be useful to check what video hardware and X servers people are
> using here.  If the behavior is just mouse freezups, the "silken mouse"
> feature of XFree might have some effect, since it involves XFree binding
> a signal to mouse device events.

Xfree 3.3.6, 4.2,4.3
Drivers nvidia, nv, sis, sisfb, vesa, vesafb

are the drivers on the machines where I've seen it happen so far - ie without 
discrimination.

Con