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

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 23:40 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On 28 Jun 2006 12:48:43 +0800
> Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@xxxxxxxxx> 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.
> > 
> > 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().

hummm while this fix is needed... something makes me want to think that
something as complex as an OS installer really shouldn't be running with
SYSTEM_BOOTING state anymore.... 
shouldn't we start considering running the initrd (esp now with klibc)
as SYSTEM_RUNNING ?

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