From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: Gianluca Anzolin <g.anzolin@inwind.it>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.7-pre6 can't complete e2fsck
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:06:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010716190653.E11978@athlon.random> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010716132933.A216@fourier.home.intranet>
In-Reply-To: <20010716132933.A216@fourier.home.intranet>; from g.anzolin@inwind.it on Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:29:33PM +0200
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 01:29:33PM +0200, Gianluca Anzolin wrote:
> I've upgraded to 2.4.7-pre6aa1 and I'm seeing a strange behaviour:
>
> e2fsck /dev/hda3 never finishes: I can't even stop the process with
> CTRL+C. Alt+SysRQ works and it tells me that the number of inactive dirty
> pages increases, while the active and free pages decrease.
>
> Alt+SYSRQ+P says the kernel loops mainly in page_launder
>
> Is there a patch to solve this problem?
The problem will go away if you backout this patch:
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/andrea/kernels/v2.4/2.4.7pre6aa1/40_blkdev-pagecache-5
I can reproduce so it will be fixed in the next release. thanks for the
feedback.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-16 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-16 11:29 2.4.7-pre6 can't complete e2fsck Gianluca Anzolin
2001-07-16 17:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli [this message]
2001-07-16 18:28 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2001-07-17 23:23 ` Kurt Garloff
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