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SubjectRe: Lockups while unpacking huge tarballs (was Re: 2.6.15-$SHA1: VT <-> X sometimes odd)
On Thu, Jan 12 2006, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:23:54AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > > Now it's vim saving 5k proggie while X tarball was unpacking on reiserfs.
> > > :wq and vim freezes. Switching to another virtual "desktops" works and
> > > everything in general works except vim. But switching to VT and back
> > > sends system to hell.
> >
> > This may be fixed by the current -git tree:
> >
> > commit 1bc691d3, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>:
> >
> > [PATCH] fix queue stalling while barrier sequencing
>
> It isn't. My HEAD is 9f5974c8734d83d4ab7096ed98136a82f41210d6 and I see
> this patch in git log output.
>
> > or if that isn't it, and you have an IDE drive, can you try if the
> > appended trivial patch makes a difference?
>
> > --- a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
> > +++ b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
> > @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ int __ide_end_request(ide_drive_t *drive
> > * for those
> > */
> > nbytes = nr_sectors << 9;
> > - if (!rq->errors && rq_all_done(rq, nbytes)) {
> > + if (0 && !rq->errors && rq_all_done(rq, nbytes)) {
> > rq->data_len = nbytes;
> > blkdev_dequeue_request(rq);
> > HWGROUP(drive)->rq = NULL;
>
> With this one-liner two X tarballs and one Firefox tarballs were
> successfully unpacked while I was hitting :w.
>
> Without it just one X tarball doesn't pass. It's even reproducable.

Alright thanks for retesting, current git should work for you (once it
mirrors out from master).

--
Jens Axboe

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