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From: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] wait_for_devfsd_finished deadlock
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 22:04:58 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200112040504.fB454w900399@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011201191113.A1034@holomorphy.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011201191113.A1034@holomorphy.com>

William Lee Irwin, III writes:
> While testing 2.4.17-pre1 with some other patches, a situation
> reminiscent of a deadlock arose. mutt(1) would block indefinitely
> while opening a large mbox, and all further calls to sys_open()
> would block indefinitely.
> 
> After some further testing to isolate the problem, I reproduced this
> behavior in the vanilla 2.4.17-pre1 kernel. The sysrq output showed
> a number of processes with the following call trace in the devfs
> core:
[...]

Just a followup: did you get around to trying devfs-patch-v199.2 ?
That should fix the problem.

				Regards,

					Richard....
Permanent: rgooch@atnf.csiro.au
Current:   rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca

      parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-04  5:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-02  3:11 William Lee Irwin III
2001-12-02 19:01 ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-03  1:34   ` William Lee Irwin III
2001-12-03  1:44   ` Richard Gooch
2001-12-04  5:04 ` Richard Gooch [this message]

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