Re: ext4 deadlocks

From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Tue Oct 07 2008 - 17:31:56 EST


Eric Sandeen wrote:
> Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>> I tried giving ext4 a spin on my rawhide system, and it appears to
>> deadlock pretty quickly: lots of processed blocked in either ext4 or jbd2.
>>
>> From the look of the sysrq-t dumps I captured, I think beagled is
>> what's triggering it by doing something with EAs. I haven't had any
>> lockups since I killed it off.
>>

ok I can reproduce this too. I'm guessing this is a migrated ext3
filesystem?

I'll sort out a fix soon.

Thanks for the report,
-Eric
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