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From: arjan@fenrus.demon.nl (Arjan van de Ven)
To: swansma@yahoo.com (Mark Swanson)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 242-ac3 loop bug
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 20:18:08 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14WkCm-000Ob6C@amadeus.home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010224173234.14673.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com>

In article <20010224173234.14673.qmail@web1301.mail.yahoo.com> you wrote:
> First, good job on the loop device. It's rock stable for me - except
> when I try to load the blowfish module which oops the kernel and
> crashes the loop device:-) No problem, I just use another cipher.

> The bug I'm reporting is that when a loop device is in use the load of
> the machine stays at 1.00 even though nothing is happening. If I umount
> the loop filesystem the load goes down to 0.00.

>> ps -aux | grep loop
> 1674 tty1     DW<   0:00 [loop0]

This is probably easy to fix in the driver, right now it waits for
events in UNINTERRUPTIBLE state, while it should wait in INTERRUPTIBLE
state. The fix isn't as trivial as removing 2 letters though, I'll send Alan
a real patch on monday.

Greetings,
   Arjan van de Ven

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-02-24 19:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-24 17:32 242-ac3 loop bug Mark Swanson
2001-02-24 17:59 ` Doug McNaught
2001-02-24 18:11   ` Mark Swanson
2001-02-24 18:57     ` Doug McNaught
2001-02-24 19:18 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2001-02-24 23:14 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-25  7:48   ` Mircea Ciocan
2001-02-26  0:15 Jonathan Oppenheim
2001-02-26  0:27 ` Jens Axboe
2001-02-26  1:17 ` Mario Hermann

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