On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 05:18, D. Stimits wrote:
> Steve Lord wrote:
> >
> > This one crept in about a week ago, I should have left this alone!
> > Nathan hit it in testing, for some reason I never could.
> >
> > Date: Tue Jul 16 19:33:03 PDT 2002
> > Workarea: jen.americas.sgi.com:/src/lord/xfs-linux.2.4
> >
> > The following file(s) were checked into:
> > bonnie.engr.sgi.com:/isms/slinx/2.4.x-xfs
> >
> > Modid: 2.4.x-xfs:slinx:123144a
> > linux/fs/xfs/pagebuf/page_buf.c - 1.40
> > - fix unlock without lock bug in pagebuf, causes a BUG macro to trip
> > also remove need for xfs_fs.h
>
> Out of curiosity, how would this show up? I'm experimenting on a new
> Redhat 7.3 install, smp (dual pIII), i840 chipset, scsi aic7xxx mixed
> with IDE. I am running "noapic" to avoid some i840 chipset issues (if
> they have been solved by microcode I will find out, but first I am
> getting it running with noapic), and compile the kernel and related sgi
> code with kgcc. This is 2.4.19-rc1-xfs, from cvs of about 2 days ago.
> This TAKE and today's takes are the first takes in a few days that were
> not on this cvs version (it is out of date by about 2 or 3 days).
This bug showed up as an oops, so you are seeing something else. I am
tied up with other things right now, I will point Eric at this.
Steve
>
> What I noticed is in copying a large subdirectory from an existing xfs
> partition, to an ext2 partition (cp -adpr, from one scsi disk to
> another), it copies a lot, then stalls. The hard drives stop showing any
> activity. I am running KDE during this, and had tail -f going on
> /var/log/messages. Not only did the copy stall, the keyboard became 100%
> unavailable, though the mouse still worked. I could focus on different
> windows, minimize them, so on, but no keyboard access. Top did not show
> any real cpu use or memory out of the normal. I couldn't even get to a
> console. But telnet from a local machine worked fine, and I could either
> kill the cp from the remote login, or kill the X11 session, and all was
> restored. If I copied the same directory via feeding "find" to cpio, it
> worked flawlessly. It might not have anything to do with xfs, but it
> seemed useful to report, and ask about (no oops or backtrace or other
> concrete data to save)...is this anything familiar? It seems like
> something deadlocked and stalled, I couldn't really call it a crash, nor
> could I say for certain it wasn't a KDE or a window manager or other
> issue.
>
> FYI, I am on the mailing list.
>
> D. Stimits, stimits @ idcomm.com
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