Re: [BUG] Lockless patches cause hardlock under heavy IO

From: Ryan Hope
Date: Thu Jun 19 2008 - 10:46:20 EST


Well enabling these debug options is sorta useless because once it
hardlocks I cant see or do anything..

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:15:08 -0400
> "Ryan Hope" <rmh3093@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I applied the following patches from 2.6-26-rc5-mm3
>
>>
>> I am on an x86_64. I dont know what other info you need...
>>
>
> if it's locking related, enabling LOCKDEP is a first good test to do.
>
> CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y
> as well as the various spinlock/mutex lock debug questions
>
>
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