Re: 2.6.17-mm one process gets stuck in infinite loop in the kernel.

Helge Hafting
2006-07-01T11:02:21Z

On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 04:55:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no> wrote:
>
> Oh. This is probably the generic_file_buffer_write() hang, due to
> zero-length iovec segments.
>
> If so, the below should fix it up.

I have not been able to reproduce the problem on mm4, so perhaps
it went away. Do you want me to test this patch on mm2 anyway?

Helge Hafting