From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262892AbUB0Ou6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:50:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262895AbUB0Ou5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:50:57 -0500 Received: from pileup.ihatent.com ([217.13.24.22]:32260 "EHLO pileup.ihatent.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262892AbUB0Ou4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2004 09:50:56 -0500 To: Helge Hafting Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.3-mm3 sometimes freeze on "sync" References: <20040222172200.1d6bdfae.akpm@osdl.org> <403C7D4D.1040104@aitel.hist.no> <20040225013938.53179d6c.akpm@osdl.org> <403DB324.9080702@aitel.hist.no> From: Alexander Hoogerhuis Date: 27 Feb 2004 15:49:38 +0100 In-Reply-To: <403DB324.9080702@aitel.hist.no> Message-ID: <874qtc4lx9.fsf@lapper.ihatent.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Helge Hafting writes: > Andrew Morton wrote: > > Helge Hafting wrote: > > > >>2.6.3-mm3 (and 2.6.3-mm1) occationally freeze on "sync". > > yup. bug. This should fix. > > This seems to work for me. I've booted 2.6.3-mm3 with this > patch. I ran some syncs, then forced the machine to > swap with a big tar and ran some more syncs. It works. > Just posted in reply to someone else ont he list, but I'm runnign -mm3 with the patch and seeing hangs after mkfs'ing ext3 fs'es on HP servers with the cciss-driver; roughly 50% chance of it happening on "umount /dir && mke2fs -j -L /dir /dev/cciss/c0d0p5 && mount /dir". > Helge Hafting > mvh, A -- Alexander Hoogerhuis | alexh@ihatent.com CCNP - CCDP - MCNE - CCSE | +47 908 21 485 "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it." --Scott McNealy