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Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2006 12:58:22 +0200
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.17-mm one process gets stuck in infinite loop in the kernel.
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From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
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On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 04:55:32PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no> wrote:
> 
> Oh.  This is probably the generic_file_buffer_write() hang, due to
> zero-length iovec segments.
> 
> If so, the below should fix it up.

I have not been able to reproduce the problem on mm4, so perhaps
it went away.  Do you want me to test this patch on mm2 anyway?

Helge Hafting