Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 3 Aug 2000 06:25:03 +0200 (CEST) | From | Mike Galbraith <> | Subject | Re: [patch?] Re: Do ramdisk exec's map direct to buffer cache? |
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On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > >I keep running into a deadlock with it looping forever trying to > >free memory, triggered by blocking in getblk->refill_freelist->.. > >try_to_free_buffers->sync_page_buffers->zzzzz (kflushd runs forever). > > That's a bug in sync_page_buffers. getblk is using GFP_BUFFER for > allocations, so sync_page_buffers shouldn't run ll_rw_block since __GFP_IO > isn't set.
.....bugger. OK, I give up ;-) Why did it only show up with loopdev?
-Mike
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