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

Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-21T09:39:56Z

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'

-apw