linux-kernel - Re: ext4 deadlocks

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Message-ID: <48EBD448.1010309@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:27:36 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
CC:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: ext4 deadlocks

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> I tried giving ext4 a spin on my rawhide system, and it appears to 
>> deadlock pretty quickly: lots of processed blocked in either ext4 or jbd2.
>>
>>  From the look of the sysrq-t dumps I captured, I think beagled is 
>> what's triggering it by doing something with EAs. I haven't had any 
>> lockups since I killed it off.
>>

ok I can reproduce this too.  I'm guessing this is a migrated ext3
filesystem?

I'll sort out a fix soon.

Thanks for the report,
-Eric
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