From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andreas Friedrich Berendsen <afberendsen@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible ext4 race situation freezing linux
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:17:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090224141749.GC5482@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1235478142.11758.9.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 01:22:22AM +1300, Andreas Friedrich Berendsen wrote:
> Kernel version: 2.26.28.7
> efs2progs version: 1.41.4
> arch: x86_64 (amd)
>
> I made this test four times and the results were the same: linux
> freezes and becomes unresponsive. Only solution is to reset the box. I
> do not know if the problem is with the USB devices sub-subsystem or a
> possible ext4 race condition.
Can you use alt-sysrq to get some stack traces or a register dump out,
so we can see where the kernel is hanging?
- Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-24 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-24 12:22 possible ext4 race situation freezing linux Andreas Friedrich Berendsen
2009-02-24 14:17 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
2009-02-24 15:38 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-02-24 17:03 ` Andreas Friedrich Berendsen
2009-02-24 17:30 ` Theodore Tso
2009-03-04 6:42 ` Andreas Friedrich Berendsen
2009-03-04 6:56 ` Eric Sandeen
2009-03-04 8:03 ` Andreas Friedrich Berendsen
2009-03-06 19:21 ` Andreas Friedrich Berendsen
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