Messages in this thread | | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-t3: vfs/ext3 do_lookup bug?! | Date | Wed, 20 Aug 2003 12:06:34 -0700 |
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Andrew Morton wrote:
> Martin Zwickel <martin.zwickel@technotrend.de> wrote: >> >> Today I wanted to check out some src-files from cvs. >> But my fault was, that I ran cvs twice at the same time. >> >> so two "cvs upd -d -A" are now in 'D' state. >> >> I think they got stuck because both tried to access the same file. > > How odd. Were they the only processes which were in D state?
They are probably hung on the same semaphore, ie "dir->i_sem". They almost certainly are not deadlocked on each other: something else has either left the directory semaphore locked, or is in turn waiting for something else.
Martin - do you have the _full_ list of processes available?
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