Re: quota deadlock

From: stanojr
Date: Tue Nov 30 2004 - 07:50:47 EST


On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 04:18:01PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> stanojr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > heavy write access to partition with quota enabled causes deadlock. if
> > processes try to access the deadlocked partition they
> > simply have no response and cannot be killed with SIGKILL. i've been
> > testing with reiserfs and ext2 on 2.6.9 kernel.
>
> There are a bunch of patches in 2.6.10-rc2-mm3 which are designed to fix
> quota deadlocks. Could you please test that (or a later -mm kernel) and
> let us know the result?
>
> Thanks.
>
hello
i tried mm3 patch and it was working fine. i havent encountered any problems.
thanks
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