Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm1

[Chris Mason]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 10:15:47AM -0700, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 01:48 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 23:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > LTP writev tests seems to lockup the machine. reiserfs issue ?
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#2!
> > > 
> > 
> > This is likely to be a reiserfs interaction with the pagecache write
> > deadlock fixes. Chris Mason just now identified a couple of issues
> > and is going to work on a fix.
> > 
> 
> No. seems to be generic issue .. (happens with ext3 also) :(
> 
The reiserfs side should be pages marked up to date when they really
aren't.  Not a good thing, but not softlockup either.

-chris

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