Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3

From: Jens Axboe
Date: Mon Feb 05 2007 - 07:15:44 EST


On Mon, Feb 05 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >
> > > That looks like barriers, could you try with those disabled? Sorry for
> > > making you go through this, I can't debug and fix it myself before
> > > monday.
> >
> > Disabling barriers + your patch works. Modified /etc/fstab and added a
> > nobarrier option to the root filesystem. If I take your patch out then the
> > systems hangs again.
>
> I can't reproduce this. Can you see if this debug patch catches
> anything? You need to enable barriers again.

Nevermind, that was too aggressive. I'll come up with a better debug
patch.

--
Jens Axboe

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