From: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
To: "Ryan Hope" <rmh3093@gmail.com>
Cc: "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
linux-mm@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [BUG] Lockless patches cause hardlock under heavy IO
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:29:42 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200806231229.42943.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48f7fe350806220818n52cc36e9v28bdc6cf2c4cf841@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday 23 June 2008 01:18, Ryan Hope wrote:
> Well in the current version of the patchset we are using, one user
> would start playing some game (disabling "Disable Heap Randomization"
> fixed the hardlocks for him... the other user got hardlocks when
> copying an ISO from a reiser4 partition to a reiserfs partition
> (disabling swap fixed the issue for him).
Hmm, nobody has reported such a hang with -mm yet, so maybe it
is another interaction in the patchset. OTOH, probably nobody
much uses -mm and reiser4, and reiser4 does lots of weird fiddling
with pagecache so it could be broken in -mm even.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-23 2:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-18 21:15 Ryan Hope
2008-06-18 21:28 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-06-19 14:45 ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-20 0:05 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-06-19 8:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-19 8:19 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-19 14:52 ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-19 20:31 ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-20 14:33 ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-22 14:37 ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-22 15:07 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-06-22 15:18 ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-23 2:29 ` Nick Piggin [this message]
2008-06-23 3:51 ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-23 3:56 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-23 11:54 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-23 13:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-06-24 0:13 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-24 15:12 ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-24 15:32 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-06-24 15:57 ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-24 16:12 ` Paul E. McKenney
2008-06-24 16:23 ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-24 18:01 ` Ryan Hope
2008-06-23 23:48 ` Zan Lynx
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