linux-kernel - Re: Processes spinning forever, apparently in lock_timer

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Message-ID: <46F3E692.7070401@redhat.com>
Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:43:14 -0400
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
CC:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Matthias Hensler <matthias@...se.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	richard kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>
Subject: Re: Processes spinning forever, apparently in lock_timer_base()?

On 09/21/2007 05:39 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> This sounds an awful lot like the same problem I reported with fsck
> hanging.  I believe that Hugh had a candidate patch for that, which was
> related to dirty tracking limits.  It seems that that patch tested, and
> acked by Peter.  All on lkml under:
> 
> 	2.6.23-rc6-mm1 -- mkfs stuck in 'D'
> 

Unfortunately that whole thread is about fixing bugs in an already
much-changed balance_dirty_pages() in -mm.
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