From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261812AbUBWF3o (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:29:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261814AbUBWF3o (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:29:44 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:22186 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261812AbUBWF3m (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:29:42 -0500 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 21:30:11 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Neil Brown Cc: P.Luptak@sh.cvut.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SW RAID5 + high memory support freezes 2.6.3 kernel Message-Id: <20040222213011.7e1b8bbf.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <16441.33071.218049.163976@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> References: <20040223024124.GA1590@psilocybus> <16441.33071.218049.163976@notabene.cse.unsw.edu.au> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Neil Brown wrote: > > > Hello, > > issue http://www.spinics.net/lists/lvm/msg10322.html could be still present > > in the current 2.6.3 kernel. I am able to repeat the conditions to halt the > > 2.6.3 kernel (using mkfs.ext3 on RAID device): > > To be fair, your subject should say that > SW RAID5 + high memory + loop device freezes 2.6.3 kernel > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ hm, yes. And the loop code which was involved here was removed from the kernel last week, so it's a bit academic. Retest on current 2.6.3-bk or 2.6.3-mm3 please.