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Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:36:10 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [BUG] D-states in test8
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Pedro Larroy <piotr@member.fsf.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 04:01:27PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Pedro Larroy <piotr@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > Process just started to get into D state, all subsequent ps got into D.
> > >  The first that got into D state was mplayer.
> > 
> > This might help.
> > 
> > --- 25/sound/core/pcm_native.c~pcm_native-deadlock-fix	2003-10-19 15:58:31.000000000 -0700
> 
> 
> Thanks. Also thanks to wli for the insight.
> 

Well.  The emphasis is on "might".  That locking bug was on an error path
and it's quite possible that the deadlock is due to a different bug which
is still there.