Re: 2.6.15-$SHA1: VT <-> X sometimes odd

[Linus Torvalds]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 
> Now it's vim saving 5k proggie while X tarball was unpacking on reiserfs.
> :wq and vim freezes. Switching to another virtual "desktops" works and
> everything in general works except vim. But switching to VT and back
> sends system to hell.

This may be fixed by the current -git tree:

	commit 1bc691d3, Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx>:

	[PATCH] fix queue stalling while barrier sequencing

or if that isn't it, and you have an IDE drive, can you try if the 
appended trivial patch makes a difference?

			Linus

---
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
index bcbaeb5..d726167 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-io.c
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ int __ide_end_request(ide_drive_t *drive
 	 * for those
 	 */
 	nbytes = nr_sectors << 9;
-	if (!rq->errors && rq_all_done(rq, nbytes)) {
+	if (0 && !rq->errors && rq_all_done(rq, nbytes)) {
 		rq->data_len = nbytes;
 		blkdev_dequeue_request(rq);
 		HWGROUP(drive)->rq = NULL;
-
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