From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:35:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:35:03 -0500 Received: from kinshasa-52.budapest.interware.hu ([195.70.51.180]:65028 "EHLO iluvatar.ath.cx") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:34:54 -0500 Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 20:34:42 +0100 Message-ID: <83wuzgbc4t.wl@iluvatar.ath.cx> From: Gergely Nagy To: Andrea Arcangeli Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.4.17rc2aa1 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> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.9.0 (Unchained Melody) Emacs/21.1 Mule/5.0 (SAKAKI) Organization: The MadHouse Project X-Marvin: Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it. MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="pgp-sign-Multipart_Fri_Dec_21_20:34:33_2001-1"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --pgp-sign-Multipart_Fri_Dec_21_20:34:33_2001-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > 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 > 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. --pgp-sign-Multipart_Fri_Dec_21_20:34:33_2001-1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAjwjjtIACgkQR47eFMOy/N7PawCeNjm7V1HTux4SiYNgNnKfLYtA S0MAoM4TedXf43K28qG2IXvkSSd71F3s =vOGu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pgp-sign-Multipart_Fri_Dec_21_20:34:33_2001-1--