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From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge@hmc.edu>
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Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 11:11:32 -0800
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.2-ac3: loop threads in D state
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Jens Axboe writes:
 > On Sun, Feb 25 2001, Nate Eldredge wrote:
 > > Nate Eldredge writes:
 > >  > Kernel 2.4.2-ac3.
 > >  > 
 > >  >  FLAGS   UID   PID  PPID PRI  NI   SIZE   RSS WCHAN       STA TTY TIME COMMAND
 > >  >     40     0   425     1  -1 -20      0     0 down        DW< ?   0:00 (loop0)
 > > 
 > > It looks like this has been addressed in the thread "242-ac3 loop
 > > bug".  Jens Axboe posted a patch, but the list archive I'm reading
 > > mangled it.  Jens, could you make this patch available somewhere, or
 > > at least email me a copy?  (If it's going in an upcoming -ac patch,
 > > then don't bother; I can wait until then.)
 > 
 > Patch is here, I haven't checked whether Alan put it in ac4 yet (I
 > did cc him, but noone knows for sure :-).

It's in 2.4.2-ac5, which does indeed fix the problem.  Thanks to all.

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Nate Eldredge
neldredge@hmc.edu