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

Andrew Morton
2006-07-01T11:06:07Z

On Sat, 1 Jul 2006 12:58:22 +0200
Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no> wrote:

> 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?
>

No, that'll be the cause, thanks.