linux-kernel - Re: Random freeze (Re: mmotm 2008-11-19-02-19 uploaded)

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Message-ID: <5672.1227291159@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:12:39 -0500
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	penguin-kernel@...ove.sakura.ne.jp, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Random freeze (Re: mmotm 2008-11-19-02-19 uploaded)

On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:20:54 PST, Andrew Morton said:

> It's also of course possible (but less common) that someone mucked up
> the VFS.  It would be interesting to revert
> do_mpage_readpage-dont-submit-lots-of-small-bios-on-boundary.patch.

Reverted that one, managed to provoke a wedge-up this morning anyhow.
So it's something else.

I may have to go and find a reproducer good enough to make bisection plausible.

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