Re: 2.4.22-pre3 and reiserfs boot problem

Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-07-11T13:18:20Z

On 11 Jul 2003 09:15:21 -0400
Chris Mason <mason@suse.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 14:01, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 20:20:02 +0400
> > > "Peter Lojkin" <ia6432@inbox.ru> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > here is exact patch i've used. i made it by cutting pre2-pre3 diff,
> > > > so apply it o top of 2.4.22-pre3 with -R option to patch...
> > >
> > > Hello Peter
> > > Hello Marcelo
> > >
> > > I can confirm that pre3 works when reversing the attached patch. Thanks
> > > very much, Peter.
> >
> > Fine Stephan. Now can youplease get us the task backtraces from sysrq when
> > the hang happens?
> >
> > Andrea, Chris, any idea of why this is happening?
>
> My first guess is that blk_oversized_queue is false but there aren't any
> requests left. That will pretty much spin in __get_request_wait with
> irqs off, which sounds similar to what he's hitting.

Why is it I am only seeing it on a big device of 320 GB? Even 60GB mount
without problems...

Regards,
Stephan