On Sat, Jan 06 2007, Torsten Kaiser wrote: > On Saturday 06 January 2007 11:02, Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 06 2007, Torsten Kaiser wrote: > > > On Saturday 06 January 2007 04:59, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/2.6.20-rc3-mm1x.bz2 is basically > > > > 2.6.20-rc3-mm1, minus git-block.patch. Can you and Torsten please > > > > test that, see if the hangs go away? > > > > > > Works for me too. > > > > Torsten, can you test XFS with barriers disabled? I have a feeling that > > is where the problem lies. > > With your patch from Bug 7775: Same hang detected by NMI watchdog
Does this fix it? Only apply this one, not the patch from 7775. diff --git a/block/ll_rw_blk.c b/block/ll_rw_blk.c index ec40e44..bae57e0 100644 --- a/block/ll_rw_blk.c +++ b/block/ll_rw_blk.c @@ -1542,7 +1542,7 @@ static inline void queue_sync_plugs(request_queue_t *q) * If the current process is plugged and has barriers submitted, * we will livelock if we don't unplug first. */ - blk_unplug_current(); + blk_replug_current_nested(); synchronize_qrcu(&q->qrcu); } -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/