Re: Processes spinning forever, apparently in lock_timer_base()?

Chuck Ebbert
2007-09-21T15:44:19Z

On 09/21/2007 05:39 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> This sounds an awful lot like the same problem I reported with fsck
> hanging. I believe that Hugh had a candidate patch for that, which was
> related to dirty tracking limits. It seems that that patch tested, and
> acked by Peter. All on lkml under:
>
> 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 -- mkfs stuck in 'D'
>

Unfortunately that whole thread is about fixing bugs in an already
much-changed balance_dirty_pages() in -mm.