On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:23:29 +0200 > Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > >> > I tried this patch and seems i got deadlock on the truncate_mutex. >> > Here is the message after enabling lockdep. I pasted the same message >> > on the origianal thread. >> >> ... >> >> I don't think this is a deadlock (or is the machine hung?). The thread >> was just waiting for a long time. I'd think that you'll occasionally get >> exactly the same message even without my patch if you stress the machine >> like you do. >> > > Well, it's easy to tell the difference > > deadlock: system never recovers > long-sucky-delay: system eventually recovers. > > Which was it?? Guess i have to retest it. I didn't wait long enough to see what happened on the machine. However, i do see the machine got rebooted later, but i am not sure what is the reason it is got reboot. I will rerun the patch and keep an eye on it this time. --Ying > -- 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
