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From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: dag@bakke.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfsdump hangs - 2.6.6 && 2.6.7-rc1-bk3
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 15:58:29 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040527055829.GA8981@frodo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040526091315.17983.h012.c000.wm@mail.bakke.com.criticalpath.net>

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 09:13:14AM -0700, dag@bakke.com wrote:
> 
> I experience hangs with xfsdump, when dumping my rootfs to a USB 2.0
> ...
> http://thaifood.homeip.net/xfsdumphang/xfsdump.dmesg.txt 
> ...

The xfsdump stack trace in there is the important one.
Can you try this patch and let me know how it goes?

thanks.

-- 
Nathan


--- fs/xfs/linux/xfs_buf.c.orig	2004-05-27 14:06:59.992936144 +1000
+++ fs/xfs/linux/xfs_buf.c	2004-05-27 14:08:21.548537808 +1000
@@ -370,8 +370,12 @@
 	      retry:
 		page = find_or_create_page(mapping, first + i, gfp_mask);
 		if (unlikely(page == NULL)) {
-			if (flags & PBF_READ_AHEAD)
+			if (flags & PBF_READ_AHEAD) {
+				for (--i; i >= 0; i--)
+					page_cache_release(bp->pb_pages[i]);
+				_pagebuf_free_pages(bp);
 				return -ENOMEM;
+			}
 
 			/*
 			 * This could deadlock.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-05-27  5:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-26 16:13 xfsdump hangs - 2.6.6 && 2.6.7-rc1-bk3 dag
2004-05-26 20:37 ` Nathan Scott
2004-05-27  5:58 ` Nathan Scott [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-26 17:01 dag
2004-05-27  8:09 dag
2004-05-27  8:18 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-27 10:05 ` Nathan Scott

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