On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Right now, if some process deadlocks on a mutex, we get hung process, but > with a nice backtrace and hopefully other things (that don't need that > lock) still continue to work. Clarification: the "nice backtrace" we only get with something like sysrq-W, of course. We don't get a backtrace _automatically_, but with an otherwise live machine, there's a better chance that people do get wchan or other info. IOW, it's at least a fairly debuggable situation. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
