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

Andrew Morton
2006-08-11T06:17:28Z

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 13:44:33 -0400
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:33:13 +0200, Mattia Dongili said:
>
> > 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
>
> Not quite the same trace - the first few lines are the same, but your call to
> __lock_page() comes in via do_generic_mapping_read(), while Jiri and I are
> seeing the call to __lock_page() coming from truncate_inode_pages_range()....
>

The suspend+resume->hang bug is known and reputedly fixed.

The stuck-in-lock_page-without-having-done-resume bug is not known.
Someone please try the deadline scheduler, or AS.