Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Apr 2009 13:30:30 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ext2: Fix data corruption for racing writes |
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On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:23:29 +0200 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> > > > I tried this patch and seems i got deadlock on the truncate_mutex. > > Here is the message after enabling lockdep. I pasted the same message > > on the origianal thread. > > ... > > I don't think this is a deadlock (or is the machine hung?). The thread > was just waiting for a long time. I'd think that you'll occasionally get > exactly the same message even without my patch if you stress the machine > like you do. >
Well, it's easy to tell the difference
deadlock: system never recovers long-sucky-delay: system eventually recovers.
Which was it??
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