Re: [Patch] jbd commit code deadloop when installing Linux

[Ingo Molnar]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > We see system hang in ext3 jbd code
> > when Linux install program anaconda copying 
> > packages. 
> > 
> > That is because anaconda is invoked from linuxrc 
> > in initrd when system_state is still SYSTEM_BOOTING.

[ argh ...! ]

> > Thus the cond_resched checks in  journal_commit_transaction 
> > will always return 1 without actually schedule, 
> > then the system fall into deadloop.
> 
> That's a bug in cond_resched().
> 
> Something like this..

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>

	Ingo
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