From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: ptb@it.uc3m.es
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: getblk spins endlessly in 2.4.19 SMP
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 11:18:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E14906E.7F6D3226@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200301021747.h02Hlio19517@oboe.it.uc3m.es
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> get_blk() loops forever internally for in a sort piece of driver code of
> mine.
probably it found some buffers with the wrong ->b_size, tried to
get rid of them via try_to_free_buffers(), failed, and then fell
into the "oh, we're out of memory" loop.
You need to work out why grow_dev_page() is seeing buffers with
the wrong size against the page. Be looking for incorrect or
missing calls to set_blocksize().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-02 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-02 17:46 getblk spins endlessly in 2.4.19 SMP Peter T. Breuer
2003-01-02 19:18 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-01-03 0:30 ` Peter T. Breuer
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