Re: Processes spinning forever, apparently in lock_timer_base()?

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Fri Sep 21 2007 - 11:44:20 EST


On 09/21/2007 05:39 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> This sounds an awful lot like the same problem I reported with fsck
> hanging. I believe that Hugh had a candidate patch for that, which was
> related to dirty tracking limits. It seems that that patch tested, and
> acked by Peter. All on lkml under:
>
> 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 -- mkfs stuck in 'D'
>

Unfortunately that whole thread is about fixing bugs in an already
much-changed balance_dirty_pages() in -mm.
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