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From: Gergely Nagy <algernon@debian.org>
To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.17rc2aa1
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:34:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wuzgbc4t.wl@iluvatar.ath.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011221025857.M1477@athlon.random>
In-Reply-To: <20011219161610.I1395@athlon.random> <83k7vjdk8j.wl@iluvatar.ath.cx> <20011219215208.U1395@athlon.random> <20011220181712.GA2494@iluvatar>

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> Not sure what's going on with the i_sem, are you playing with the loopfile
> somehow during the sync?

No. It's sitting in /var/cache/ext3test, and nothing else touches it.

> Can you also try to find more info about c01efe72
> <stext_lock+ee2/273a> with an objdump -j .text.lock? (should be the
> slow path of down() corresponding to the i_sem down in lo_send)

I guess I'm a bit uneducated, but objdump -j .text.lock vmlinux
doesn't work here, I'm obviously doing something wrong.
 
> are you sure it's really related to the loop device? (and not a
> ""genuine"" IDE lockup or something like that)

Yes, I'm sure. Without using the loop device, the system works fine,
as far as I can tell, and even with the loop device, 2.4.14 is OK.

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  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-21 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20011221025857.M1477@athlon.random>
2001-12-19 15:16 ` 2.4.17rc2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-19 20:32   ` 2.4.17rc2aa1 Gergely Nagy
2001-12-19 20:52     ` 2.4.17rc2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-20 18:17       ` 2.4.17rc2aa1 Gergely Nagy
2001-12-21 19:34         ` Gergely Nagy [this message]
2001-12-20 18:22       ` 2.4.17rc2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-20 18:27         ` 2.4.17rc2aa1 Linus Torvalds
2001-12-20 18:32           ` 2.4.17rc2aa1 Andrea Arcangeli
2001-12-20 18:35             ` 2.4.17rc2aa1 Linus Torvalds
2001-12-20 19:28               ` 2.4.17rc2aa1 Christoph Hellwig
2001-12-25 20:22   ` 2.4.17rc2aa1 - blocking(?) in /proc Adam Schrotenboer

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