Re: bugreport: pre7 NFS mmap locked in disk wait
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> wrote:
>
> This is known. Linus was a bit too quick to apply the changes to
> invalidate_inode_pages() last night.
>
> The first version of the patch produced by Juan was incorrect, and
> will indeed lead to deadlocks of the type you describe.
>
Well, pre8 is still broken here. It seems I'm having trouble using su in an X
session now (strangely, it works fine from the console even with X running.) A
kdb traceback reveals that the kernel gets deadlocked around
invalidate_inode_pages (and stalls again whenever anything else refers to the
locked-up su process.)
- Matt Yourst
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