Re: Filesystem kernel hangup, 2.6.3 (bad: scheduling while atomic!)

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 at 02:08:09PM +0100, Mikael Wahlberg wrote:
> If you need any more information please tell us, it is quite urgent for
> us, since we really don't want to go back to 2.4, the performance
> increase with 2.6 is really impressive (Except when it crashes :) 

Can you check whether the small patch below gets rid of you problems?
It still wouldn't explain the JFS problems, though.

--- 1.59/fs/xfs/linux/xfs_aops.c        Mon Feb  9 05:39:27 2004
+++ edited/fs/xfs/linux/xfs_aops.c      Mon Feb 23 15:11:33 2004
@@ -1170,7 +1170,7 @@
        if (!delalloc && !unwritten)
                goto free_buffers;
 
-       if (!(gfp_mask & __GFP_FS))
+       if ((gfp_mask & (__GFP_FS|__GFP_WAIT)) != (__GFP_FS|__GFP_WAIT))
                return 0;
 
        /* If we are already inside a transaction or the thread cannot