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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Nate Eldredge <neldredge@hmc.edu>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.2-ac3: loop threads in D state
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 17:48:15 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0102251745560.26808-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010225233957.R7830@suse.de>



On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:

> 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 :-).

Jens, you have a race in lo_clr_fd() (loop-6). I've put the fixed
variant on ftp.math.psu.edu/pub/viro/loop-S2.gz. Diff and you'll
see - it's in the very beginning of the lo_clr_fd().
							Cheers,
								Al


  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-25 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-24 21:14 2.4.2-ac3: loop threads in D state Nate Eldredge
2001-02-25 22:33 ` Nate Eldredge
2001-02-25 22:39   ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-25 22:48     ` Alexander Viro [this message]
2001-02-26  0:24       ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-26  0:29         ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-26  0:33           ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-26  0:36             ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-26  0:39               ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-26  1:42                 ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-26  0:40               ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-26  0:48                 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-26  0:53                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-02-26  0:54                     ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-27 19:11   ` Nate Eldredge

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