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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: karim@opersys.com
Cc: Linux-MTD <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Problems with NFTL in 2.4.22
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:57:56 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1068631075.10450.3.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FB17F30.7090006@opersys.com>

On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 19:30 -0500, Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> I haven't seen anything in the archives about this, so here goes:
> 
> I've had quite a few problems trying to interface with an 8MB DOC with
> 2.4.22. The system would simply freeze when I tried doing things like
> mount, unmount, mke2fs, cat fs image to device, etc. No oops no nothing,
> just the tools would not return to the command line and I'd have to
> hard-reset the system.

Did you get a backtrace of the offending process(es) with SysRq-T?

I suspected it might be because we're calling cond_resched() when one of
our callers has already set current->state to TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE. But
I've had a report that it still happens in the current CVS code, in
which that definitely shouldn't be the case. Can you confirm that?

-- 
dwmw2

      reply	other threads:[~2003-11-12  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-12  0:30 Problems with NFTL in 2.4.22 Karim Yaghmour
2003-11-12  9:57 ` David Woodhouse [this message]

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