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From: Gergely Nagy <algernon@midgard.debian.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Another loop bug? (Was: 2.4.17rc1aa1)
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 22:24:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83heqtmr5v.wl@iluvatar.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011214181444.B2431@athlon.random>
In-Reply-To: <20011214181444.B2431@athlon.random>

> Only in 2.4.17rc1aa1: 00_loop-deadlock-1
> 
> 	Fixed loop deadlock (balance_dirty() must not be called within the
> 	request_fn or it can deadlock or recurse way too much). It is
> 	enough to recall balance_dirty() at the highest layer so this won't
> 	introduce any stability problem.
> 

Maybe my problem is unrelated to this, but when I try to mount an ext2
image (from an ext3 filesystem, if that counts), loop0 starts to eat
CPU, and brings up the load to around 2.90. After a short time (about
a minute after mounting the image), everything that tries to access
the mounted area hangs. I can't umount it, and can't kill the
processes which are trying to access it.

I have this problem since 2.4.16, 2.4.14 (with ext3 0.9.15) works
fine.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-14 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-14 17:14 2.4.17rc1aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-14 21:24 ` Gergely Nagy [this message]
2001-12-15  4:52 ` 2.4.17rc1aa1 Barry K. Nathan
2001-12-17 15:33   ` 2.4.17rc1aa1 Andrea Arcangeli

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