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

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'

-apw
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