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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch] jbd commit code deadloop when installing Linux
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:38:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060628063859.GA9726@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060627234005.dda13686.akpm@osdl.org>


* Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:

> > We see system hang in ext3 jbd code
> > when Linux install program anaconda copying 
> > packages. 
> > 
> > That is because anaconda is invoked from linuxrc 
> > in initrd when system_state is still SYSTEM_BOOTING.

[ argh ...! ]

> > Thus the cond_resched checks in  journal_commit_transaction 
> > will always return 1 without actually schedule, 
> > then the system fall into deadloop.
> 
> That's a bug in cond_resched().
> 
> Something like this..

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-28  6:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-28  4:48 [Patch] jbd commit code deadloop when installing Linux Zou Nan hai
2006-06-28  6:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-28  6:38   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-06-28  6:55     ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-28  5:46       ` Zou Nan hai
2006-06-28  7:39         ` Ingo Molnar
2006-06-28  7:40         ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-28  6:02           ` Zou Nan hai
2006-06-28  8:04             ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-28  6:50               ` Zou Nan hai
2006-06-28  8:45                 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-28  7:14                   ` Zou Nan hai
2006-06-28  9:29                   ` Ingo Molnar
2006-06-28  7:55           ` Ingo Molnar
2006-06-28  9:10   ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-06-28  7:32     ` Zou Nan hai

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