Re: 2.6.18-rc3-mm2 - ext3 locking issue?

Jiri Slaby
2006-08-10T17:43:59Z

On 8/10/06, Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 08:27:49AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:39:11 +0159
> > Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 09 Aug 2006 16:43:20 EDT, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu said:
> > > >
> > > >>> Usually this means that there's an IO request in flight and it got lost
> > > >>> somewhere. Device driver bug, IO scheduler bug, etc. Conceivably a
> > > >>> lost interrupt (hardware bug, PCI setup bug, etc).
> > > >
> > > >> Aug 9 14:30:24 turing-police kernel: [ 3535.720000] end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0
> > > >
> > > > Red herring. yum just wedged again, this time with no reference to floppy drive.
> > > > Same traceback. Anybody have anything to suggest before I start playing
> > > > hunt-the-wumpus with a -mm bisection?
> > >
> > > Hmm, I have the accurately same problem...
> > > yum + CFQ + BLK_DEV_PIIX + nothing odd in dmesg
>
> oooh, same setup and same trace here, but no yum, see some screenshots
> here:
> http://oioio.altervista.org/linux/dsc03448.jpg
> http://oioio.altervista.org/linux/dsc03449.jpg

This is reiser ^^?!, so we can exclude fs? I have this behaviour on ext3.

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Jiri Slaby
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