Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Oct 2009 21:06:58 +0200 | From | Petr Titěra <> | Subject | Re: complete IO hang since a few kernel revision |
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Mike Galbraith napsal(a): > On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 16:16 +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > >> On Tue, 06 Oct 2009, Mike Galbraith wrote: >> >>> I've tried unsuccessfully to reproduce this behavior. >>> >>> Since it doesn't appear to be something readily reproducible, more >>> information and/or some digging on your part may be needed. >>> >> Hm, how could I do that? I am fine with compiling some strange >> kernel options, or running some debugging task, but I don't have >> and netconsole or serial console available. >> > > Locating when it started for you would be valuable, even if it's not > pin-pointed such as a git bisection could do. A bisection is the best > bet to nail it down, but can be quite time consuming. > > I see something similar here. Processes just get stuck in balance_dirty_pages for infinite time. It helps if, when process is stuck another process generates some dirty pages. Unfotunately last kernel I'm prety sure everything worked is 2.6.31-rc9-tip-01355-ge035e96 (yes its x86 -tip kernel). I'm building new kernel now.
Petr
> One thing you can try is to drop to a non-gui shell, and see it the > symptom is reproducible without the GUI. If it is, poke SysRq-W while > things are thoroughly jammed up, and post the output+config here. > > -Mike > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > > __________ Informace od ESET Smart Security, verze databaze 4496 (20091010) __________ > > Tuto zpravu proveril ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.cz > > >
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