Re: getblk spins endlessly in 2.4.19 SMP

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Thu, 02 Jan 2003 11:18:06 -0800


"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> get_blk() loops forever internally for in a sort piece of driver code of
> mine.

probably it found some buffers with the wrong ->b_size, tried to
get rid of them via try_to_free_buffers(), failed, and then fell
into the "oh, we're out of memory" loop.

You need to work out why grow_dev_page() is seeing buffers with
the wrong size against the page. Be looking for incorrect or
missing calls to set_blocksize().
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