Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

manish
2003-05-27T18:47:58Z

Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

>On Tuesday 27 May 2003 20:33, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
>Hi Marcelo,
>
>>It seems your "fix-pausing" patch is fixing a potential wakeup
>>miss, right? (I looked quickly throught it). Could you explain me the
>>problem its trying to fix and how?
>>
>Please have also a look here:
>
>http://hypermail.idiosynkrasia.net/linux-kernel/archived/2002/week45/0305.html
>
>ciao, Marc
>
Hello !

I applied the fix-pausing-2 patch to the 2.4.20 kernel. This time on,
the stack trace:

sys_write
generic_file_write
ext2_get_group_desc
bread
__wait_on_buffer
schedule