Re: 2.1.103: loop broken ?

Shawn Leas (sleas@ixion.honeywell.com)
Sun, 31 May 1998 19:24:15 -0500 (CDT)


On Sun, 31 May 1998, Philippe Troin wrote:

>
> Whenever I try to mount a loop filesystem, the kernel hangs (no oops).
> This is on a vanilla 2.1.103 kernel + cli/sti fixes for drivers/block/md.c running in SMP mode on a SMP machine (2 PPro-166).
>
> The loop fs is located on an ext2 raid0 fs.
>
> I got the following info with the magic sysrq key:

Known bug. It works on a non-SMP kernel. Methinks it was/is a spin-lock
misuse issue. (Not that I know of such things.)

-Shawn
> Status:
> EIP 0010:[<c0109378>] (somewhere in cpu_idle)
> EFLAGS: 246
> EAX: 0000001b EBX: 00000f00 ECX: c0106000 EDX: 00000001
> ESI: c0107fe0 EDI: 00000000 EBP: 000000a0 DS: 0018 ES: 0018
>
> Mount task:
> task #: 6 R PC=00000002 stack:0 pid:43
> ^^^^^^^^-> this looks bad
>
> 2.1.102 shows the same problem.
>
> Phil.
>
>
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