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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Andres Salomon <dilinger@mp3revolution.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: D state processes in 2.4.18-pre7-ac3
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 01:23:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C624782.14FC8C70@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020207090237.GA2137@mp3revolution.net>

Andres Salomon wrote:
> 
> Linux incandescent 2.4.18-pre7-ac3 #1 Tue Feb 5 01:00:50 EST 2002 i686 unknown
> 
> I came home today to a bunch of processes apparently hung in jbd's
> do_get_write_access(); apparently, something deadlocked, where no
> processes could write to one of my partition's journal.  That's my
> theory, anyways.  Several processes had stacks similar to:
> 
> ...
> 
> And, kjournald had the following:
> 
> Call Trace: [<c0131f0a>] [<d08ee6e6>] [<c0112380>] [<d08f08eb>]
> [<d08f07c0>]
>    [<c010f4e8>]
> Warning (Oops_read): Code line not seen, dumping what data is available
> 
> Trace; c0131f0a <__wait_on_buffer+6a/90>
> Trace; d08ee6e6 <[jbd]journal_commit_transaction+776/dd6>
> Trace; c0112380 <schedule+2c0/2f0>
> Trace; d08f08ea <[jbd]kjournald+10a/1a0>
> Trace; d08f07c0 <[jbd]commit_timeout+0/10>

This is the important part - we sent a write request down the
stack and it seems that I/O completion was never signalled.

You should check for any odd messages from the device driver
or LVM layers, if the logs made it to disk.

-

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-07  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-07  9:02 D state processes in 2.4.18-pre7-ac3 Andres Salomon
2002-02-07  9:23 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-02-07 14:53   ` Andres Salomon
2002-02-07 18:29     ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2002-02-07 19:02       ` Andres Salomon
2002-02-07 13:10 ` Stephen C. Tweedie

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