Re: [Patch] jbd commit code deadloop when installing Linux

[Andrew Morton]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:38:59 +0200
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > We see system hang in ext3 jbd code
> > > when Linux install program anaconda copying 
> > > packages. 
> > > 
> > > That is because anaconda is invoked from linuxrc 
> > > in initrd when system_state is still SYSTEM_BOOTING.
> 
> [ argh ...! ]

That's what I thought  ;)

> > > Thus the cond_resched checks in  journal_commit_transaction 
> > > will always return 1 without actually schedule, 
> > > then the system fall into deadloop.
> > 
> > That's a bug in cond_resched().
> > 
> > Something like this..
> 
> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> 

Thanks.  Zou, it'd be great if you could test this in your setup, please. 
I've tagged it as 2.6.17.x material.
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