Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:11:45 +0100 (CET) | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: arca-vm-8 [Re: [patch] arca-vm-6, killed kswapd [Re: [patch] new-vm , improvement , [Re: 2.2.0 Bug summary]]] |
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On Sat, 9 Jan 1999, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> couple of years at least: a large write() to a mmap()ed file can > deadlock for a similar reason, but on the inode write lock instead of > the superblock lock.
Right. Look at the Oops report I generated at deadlock time and you'll see that my kernel deadlocked in filemap_write_page() on the inode semaphore.
Andrea Arcangeli
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