Re: 2.5.9 kreiserfsd and sync hung in D state

[rwhron@earthlink.net]

> Ok. This one is working fine for me right now:
> angband:~ # mount /testfs0 -o defaults,noatime
> angband:~ # find * | cpio -pdm /testfs0
> 4859 blocks
> angband:~ # sync
> angband:~ #

That basically is the test.

> > > Can you see where it hung? (alt-sysrq-T, if you have sysrq enabled).
> > It has a serial console.  I'm checking on how to sysrq-T on it.
> > (it's an OSDL machine).
> 
> Waiting for your data.

Will post sysrq-T when I find out how.

> > One other thing I noticed is that the load average was 3.99 on
> > this 4 way x86 box.  The load average seems high, since it was
> 
> Ah, so it is four way box. Mine is two way.
> 
> Any other special things? HAve you enabled kernel preemption?
> Any other unusual config stuff?

No preempt.  It has highmem.  It also has tagged queueing
on AIC7XXXX adapter. 

Here is the whole config:
CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_MPENTIUMIII=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y
CONFIG_X86_XADD=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGADD_ALGORITHM=y
CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=5
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_USE_PPRO_CHECKSUM=y
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_SMP=y
CONFIG_HAVE_DEC_LOCK=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_SD_EXTRA_DEVS=40
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y
CONFIG_SR_EXTRA_DEVS=2
CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN=y
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX_OLD=y
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_OLD_TCQ_ON_BY_DEFAULT=y
CONFIG_AIC7XXX_OLD_CMDS_PER_DEVICE=8
CONFIG_SCSI_IPS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP=y
CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FC=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_LANCE=y
CONFIG_NET_PCI=y
CONFIG_EEPRO100=y
CONFIG_ACENIC=y
CONFIG_SOUND_GAMEPORT=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
CONFIG_RTC=y
CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT3_FS=y
CONFIG_JBD=y
CONFIG_RAMFS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_V3=y
CONFIG_NFSD=y
CONFIG_NFSD_V3=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC=y
CONFIG_LOCKD=y
CONFIG_LOCKD_V4=y
CONFIG_EXPORTFS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL=y
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y

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Randy Hron