From: "William M. Shubert" <wms@igoweb.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Help! Unkillable "dd" in kernel 2.4.9
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 10:34:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BD3071F.80805@igoweb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BD21A41.2080608@igoweb.org>
Oops, just checked the red hat kernel source, found that my bug has been
fixed there. Caused by a leak of preallocated raid1 buffer headers.
Apparently fixed in the Alan Cox kernel series. Dang, wish I'd known
about this fix before I used the vanilla 2.4.9 raid1 system!
William M. Shubert wrote:
> As the subject says, I am running kernel 2.4.9 (from kernel.org, not
> the red hat version) and have a "dd" process that stopped halfway
> through its work and is now unkillable. The "wchan" reports that dd is
> stuck in "raid1_alloc_r1bh".
...
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Bill Shubert (wms@igoweb.org) <mailto:wms@igoweb.org>
http://www.igoweb.org/~wms/ <http://igoweb.org/%7Ewms/>
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