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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.0-t3: vfs/ext3 do_lookup bug?!
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:06:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bi0grq$49r$1@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20030820113625.6a75d699.akpm@osdl.org

Andrew Morton wrote:

> Martin Zwickel <martin.zwickel@technotrend.de> wrote:
>>
>> Today I wanted to check out some src-files from cvs.
>>  But my fault was, that I ran cvs twice at the same time.
>> 
>>  so two "cvs upd -d -A" are now in 'D' state.
>> 
>>  I think they got stuck because both tried to access the same file.
> 
> How odd.  Were they the only processes which were in D state?

They are probably hung on the same semaphore, ie "dir->i_sem". They almost
certainly are not deadlocked on each other: something else has either left
the directory semaphore locked, or is in turn waiting for something else.

Martin - do you have the _full_ list of processes available?

                Linus

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-20 19:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-20 15:14 2.6.0-t3: vfs/ext3 do_lookup bug?! Martin Zwickel
2003-08-20 18:36 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-20 19:06   ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2003-08-21  6:33     ` Martin Zwickel
2003-08-21  6:41       ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-21  7:25         ` Martin Zwickel
2003-08-21  7:40           ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-21  8:32             ` Martin Zwickel

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