On Sun, Jul 09 2006, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jul 2006 13:16:29 +0200
> Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> | On Sun, Jul 09 2006, Jens Axboe wrote:
> | > On Sat, Jul 08 2006, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:
> | > >
> | > > Hi Jens,
> | > >
> | > > On Sat, 8 Jul 2006 08:41:32 +0200
> | > > Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:
> | > >
> | > > | On Fri, Jul 07 2006, Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino wrote:
> | > > | > On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 04:07:49 -0700
> | > > | > Andrew Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> | > > | >
> | > > | > | On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 09:07:03 +0200
> | > > | > | "Michael Kerrisk" <[email protected]> wrote:
> | > > | > |
> | > > | > | > c) Occasionally the command line just hangs, producing no output.
> | > > | > | > In this case I can't kill it with ^C or ^\. This is a
> | > > | > | > hard-to-reproduce behaviour on my (x86) system, but I have
> | > > | > | > seen it several times by now.
> | > > | > |
> | > > | > | aka local DoS. Please capture sysrq-T output next time.
> | > > | >
> | > > | > If I run lots of them in parallel, I get the following OOPs in a few
> | > > | > seconds:
> | > > |
> | > > | With the patch posted? You need the i vs nrbufs fix.
> | > >
> | > > Yes, it fixes the problem. I didn't try it before because I thought
> | > > you were going to double check it [1].
> | >
> | > Yeah the patch needs reworking, however the isolated i vs nrbufs fix is
> | > safe enough on its own. I'll post a full patch for inclusion, I'm afraid
> | > I wont be able to fully test it enough for submitting it until tomorrow
> | > though.
> |
> | Something like this, testing would be appreciated! Michael, can you
> | repeat your testing as well? Thanks.
>
> Yeah, it fixes the problem for 2.6.18-rc1.
>
> But doesn't compile for 2.6.17.4:
>
> CC fs/splice.o
> fs/splice.c: In function `link_pipe':
> fs/splice.c:1378: warning: implicit declaration of function `mutex_lock_nested'
> fs/splice.c:1378: error: `I_MUTEX_PARENT' undeclared (first use in this function)
> fs/splice.c:1378: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> fs/splice.c:1378: error: for each function it appears in.)
> fs/splice.c:1379: error: `I_MUTEX_CHILD' undeclared (first use in this function)
> make[1]: ** [fs/splice.o] Erro 1
> make: ** [fs] Erro 2
>
> Should we use the first patch for it? It does work too.
No, I'll rebase the patch for 2.6.17.x - basically you just need to
change the two mutex_lock_nested() to mutex_lock() and that is it. But
first I'd like Michael to retest as well (and more importantly, I'll do
some testing myself too).
--
Jens Axboe
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