Re: more testing on 2.4.0-t9p[456] VM deadlocks

From: Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue Sep 26 2000 - 15:24:55 EST


On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> On 26 Sep 2000, Juan J. Quintela wrote:
>
> > Ingo, I am very wrong, or vmfixes-B2_deadlock is not included in
> > test9-pre7.
>
> well, the __GFP_IO part is included (in a different way). The slab.c part
> is not included.

Actually the __GFP_IO check is now only inside ext2.

Which other filesystems are known to possibly block inside the
superblock lock (and then go to shrink_{i,d}cache_memory and bum) ?

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