From: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
To: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Matthias Hensler <matthias@wspse.de>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
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()?
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:43:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F3E692.7070401@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070921093914.GB4750@shadowen.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-21 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-01 22:39 Processes spinning forever, apparently in lock_timer_base()? Chuck Ebbert
2007-08-02 10:37 ` richard kennedy
2007-08-03 18:34 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-04 8:44 ` Matthias Hensler
2007-08-09 9:59 ` Matthias Hensler
2007-08-09 16:55 ` Andrew Morton
2007-08-09 17:37 ` Matthias Hensler
2007-09-20 21:07 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-09-20 21:29 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-20 22:04 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-09-20 22:36 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-20 22:44 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-09-21 8:08 ` Matthias Hensler
2007-09-21 8:22 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-21 10:25 ` richard kennedy
2007-09-21 10:33 ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-21 10:47 ` richard kennedy
2007-09-22 12:08 ` richard kennedy
2007-09-21 9:39 ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-21 15:43 ` Chuck Ebbert [this message]
2007-09-21 15:58 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-09-21 16:16 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-09-21 18:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2007-10-29 18:55 ` Bruno Wolff III
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2007-08-03 20:14 Oleg Nesterov
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