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From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
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Subject: VFS deadlock suspected in -CURRENT
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Hi all,

Last night's -CURRENT appears to have demonstrated deadlock. My experience
in this area is extremely limited so I have been trying to track down the
problem with kan's help.

It manifested itself as being unable to log into the machine directly (via
serial console, *or* sshd) due to processes hanging in the VFS locking code,
specifically vfs_lookup.c.

I will let you know more when I have more hard data.

Regards,
BMS