Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 3 Dec 2001 22:04:58 -0700 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] wait_for_devfsd_finished deadlock |
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William Lee Irwin, III writes: > While testing 2.4.17-pre1 with some other patches, a situation > reminiscent of a deadlock arose. mutt(1) would block indefinitely > while opening a large mbox, and all further calls to sys_open() > would block indefinitely. > > After some further testing to isolate the problem, I reproduced this > behavior in the vanilla 2.4.17-pre1 kernel. The sysrq output showed > a number of processes with the following call trace in the devfs > core: [...]
Just a followup: did you get around to trying devfs-patch-v199.2 ? That should fix the problem.
Regards,
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