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Re: PATCH: sleeping while holding a lock in _pagebuf_free_bh()::page_buf

To: Luben Tuikov <luben@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: PATCH: sleeping while holding a lock in _pagebuf_free_bh()::page_buf.c
From: Stephen Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
Date: 21 Oct 2002 19:11:23 -0500
Cc: linux-xfs <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxx>
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On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 18:56, Luben Tuikov wrote:
> Problem: on an SMP system, BANG#@!, the unthinkable happens.
> Solution: never sleep when holding a lock.

Yep, this is definitely a bug, you must be pushing memory on
the system pretty hard to hit it, memory allocations are
failing at the point it happens.

Fix should go in shortly.

Thanks,

Steve




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