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Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:49:42 +1100 From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au> To: Pascal Terjan <pterjan@...driva.com> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: pan hanging unkilleable and un-straceable On Sunday 27 January 2008 01:27, Pascal Terjan wrote: > Nick Piggin <nickpiggin <at> yahoo.com.au> writes: > > On Sunday 27 January 2008 00:29, Frederik Himpe wrote: > > > I just succeeded to reproduce the problem with this patch. Does this > > > smell like an XFS problem? > > I got the same issue using ext3 > > > Possible. Though I think it is more likely to be a bug in the > > new deadlock avoidance code in the generic buffered write path. > > Dang... I wonder why this hasn't come up earlier. It looks like > > pan's use of writev might be tickling it. > > > > How quickly can you reproduce this? > > When I was using pan daily one month ago, I got it twice over a week > > > Can you use strace to see what the hanging syscall looks like? > > I tried last week during 5 hours without luck, I can try again Dang, I didn't see any reports of this earlier :( Anyway, I sent a patch to fix it in the original thread (can you reply-to-all please? just it a bit easier to keep threads together) Thanks, Nick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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