From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: "Eloy A. Paris" <eparis@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Processes hanging in D state in 2.4.3 - any findings?
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 10:36:21 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AD1F315.2B4ED639@uow.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010409114828.A25594@antenas>
"Eloy A. Paris" wrote:
>
> Hi guys,
>
> I have seen several messages posted to l-k about people reporting
> processes (mozilla most of the time) hanging in the D state in 2.4.3,
> but I haven't seen someone posting a possible explanation or solution
> to the problem.
It's due to problems in the rw_semaphore implementation. These
were basically unused for a year, then a couple of weeks ago
we started using them, and the problems came to light.
> Anyone knows where does the problem lie, or a workaround for the
> problem? I hate going through the fsck that happens when umount fails
> because processes are in the D state...
I put out a patch yesterday which will fix the problem. Discussions
are ongoing...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-09 17:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-09 15:48 Eloy A. Paris
2001-04-09 17:36 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-04-09 19:59 ` Alan Cox
2001-05-02 23:16 hiren_mehta
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