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SubjectRe: [patch] fixed both processes in D state and the /proc/ oopses
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

>If you see a race in this my new patch, please let me know and probably
>you'll give me a good reason to reinsert mm_lock ;)

I spoke too soon. :(

With that latest patch I was still able to get lots of procs stuck in D,
but it was harder. ^_^;

I was playing with modules, trying to get it to hang that way (very
successful there). At the end of one experiment there was no crash but
rather a lot of D procs. Details:

Alpha PC164 (LX). 128M, egcs-1.1.1.

MSDOS configured as a module. Stick a floppy in the floppy drive.

# mount -o remount,ro /home ; be safe
# mount -o remount,ro /usr
# mformat a:
# mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /tmp/mnt

now /proc/modules contains:

msdos 11600 1 (autoclean)
fat 33656 1 (autoclean) [msdos]

Run this script:
---
#! /bin/sh

while true; do
cp -av /usr/src/linux/arch/ppc /tmp/mnt/ppc
ls -lR /tmp/mnt
rm -rf /tmp/mnt/ppc
done
---

In another window, make MAKE="make -j5" dep. Now normally, with msdos
as a module, this causes the machine to hang (alt-sysrq unresponsive)
after a few minutes (often after it has started to swap stuff out, but I'm
having trouble narrowing it down more than that).

This last time, I got D procs. Again, this is with Andrea's latest patch.
Without that patch, the make dep is guaranteed to fail almost right away,
but with it I was able to do this about 4 times before it occured.

1188 1175 root 1496 664 end D 0.0 0.5 0:00 make
1213 1183 root 1208 664 end D 0.0 0.4 0:00 make
1224 1177 root 1320 664 end D 0.0 0.5 0:00 make
1226 1177 root 1256 664 end D 0.0 0.4 0:00 make
1247 1190 root 1272 664 end D 0.0 0.4 0:00 make

I'll try again with the earlier patch.

Dr. Tom Holroyd
I would dance and be merry,
Life would be a ding-a-derry,
If I only had a brain.
-- The Scarecrow


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