>> Finally had some time, and I've tracked this down to the >> page-writeback.c changes since .28 - backing them all out the >> testcase runs overnight. Still working out which one and why. I >> suppose it's still possible it's an ext4 bug but if so the >> page-writeback.c changes exposed it. >> >> It's a classic deadlock; I usually have 2 threads stuck, pdflush >> vs. the livecd creator doing an fsync. Each is waiting for a page >> the other has locked. > > Two commits which are already in the mainline which fixed some changes > after .28 are > > 89e1219004b3657cc014521663eeef0744f1c99d > dcf6a79dda5cc2a2bec183e50d829030c0972aaa > I read Eric's email as saying he tracked it down to the page-writeback.c changes *after* 2.6.28. Eric, is that what you meant? - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
