Re: kupdated, bdflush and kjournald stuck in D state on RAID1 device (deadlock?)

[Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>]

David Rees wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 02:38:23PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >
> > OK, thanks.  bdflush is stuck in raid1_alloc_r1bh() and
> > everything else is blocked by it.  I thought we fixed
> > that a couple of months ago :(
> >
> > Could you send the output of `cat /proc/meminfo'?
> >
> > > 18239 -bash            wait4
> > > 18274 umount /opt      rwsem_down_write_failed
> >
> > What are we trying to do here?  Is /opt the deadlocked
> > filesytem?
> 
> Yep, /dev/md0 is mounted on /opt.
> 

OK, and according to your /proc/meminfo:

        total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
Mem:  525422592 497364992 28057600        0 133500928 335839232
Swap: 1052794880  4710400 1048084480
MemTotal:       513108 kB
MemFree:         27400 kB
MemShared:           0 kB
Buffers:        130372 kB
Cached:         323368 kB
SwapCached:       4600 kB
Active:         293704 kB
Inact_dirty:    161536 kB
Inact_clean:      3100 kB
Inact_target:       16 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       513108 kB
LowFree:         27400 kB
SwapTotal:     1028120 kB
SwapFree:      1023520 kB

it's not an out-of-memory deadlock.

The RAID1 buffer allocation is pretty simple - unless the
disk controller has decided to stop delivering interrupts,
everything shold just come back to life as physical writes
complete.  I assume the hardware is still working OK?

It's a uniprocessor machine, yes?