Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Patch] jbd commit code deadloop when installing Linux | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Date | Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:10:56 +0200 |
| |
On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 23:40 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On 28 Jun 2006 12:48:43 +0800 > Zou Nan hai <nanhai.zou@intel.com> wrote: > > > We see system hang in ext3 jbd code > > when Linux install program anaconda copying > > packages. > > > > That is because anaconda is invoked from linuxrc > > in initrd when system_state is still SYSTEM_BOOTING. > > > > Thus the cond_resched checks in journal_commit_transaction > > will always return 1 without actually schedule, > > then the system fall into deadloop. > > That's a bug in cond_resched().
hummm while this fix is needed... something makes me want to think that something as complex as an OS installer really shouldn't be running with SYSTEM_BOOTING state anymore.... shouldn't we start considering running the initrd (esp now with klibc) as SYSTEM_RUNNING ?
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |