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Re: 2.4.19 or 2.4.20 breaks encrypted swap (loop-aes or cryptoapi)



In article <3E381DD3.6166C3FD@pp.inet.fi>,
Jari Ruusu  <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> wrote:
>fix-pausing-2h will lock up too. At least here it did.

2h locked up after 9 hours on clear FS + encrypted swap for me.
2h is still running on encrypted FS + encrypted swap after 21 hours.

>I am still chasing this bug which _appears_ to be some sort of race in VM.
>As I mentioned earlier, Red Hat kernel 2.4.20-2.21 seems to work ok, but
>that kernel has different VM than mainline.

...and I greatly appreciate your efforts so far.  It's interesting that
your first patch worked as well as it did (at least for lockups...I haven't
run any speed tests on it).

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Zygo Blaxell (Laptop) <zblaxell@feedme.hungrycats.org>
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