Re: [BUG] Lockless patches cause hardlock under heavy IO

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Wed Jun 18 2008 - 17:29:41 EST


On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:15:08 -0400
"Ryan Hope" <rmh3093@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I applied the following patches from 2.6-26-rc5-mm3

>
> I am on an x86_64. I dont know what other info you need...
>

if it's locking related, enabling LOCKDEP is a first good test to do.

CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y
as well as the various spinlock/mutex lock debug questions



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