[Bug 12579] ext4 filesystem hang

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http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12579





------- Comment #4 from tytso@xxxxxxx  2009-02-12 10:48 -------

>> 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


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