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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 ps hang ?
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 14:55:36 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041001145536.182dada9.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096666140.12861.82.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com>

Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > Can you work out who is holding mmap_sem for writing?
> > 
> 
> grr.. okay. It hangs randomly. Don't we have code to record the holder
> of a sem somewhere ?

The full sysrq-T trace should tell us.  All I saw from your initial email
was two processes stuck in down_read().  That shouldn't happen, so either
there was another process in down_write() somewhere or we mucked up the
semaphore (it is corrupted, or someone forget up_write()).

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-01 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-01 16:08 2.6.9-rc2-mm4 ps hang ? Badari Pulavarty
2004-10-01 19:09 ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-01 20:06   ` Hugh Dickins
2004-10-01 20:59     ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-01 21:29   ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-10-01 21:55     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-10-01 23:06       ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-10-01 23:49         ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-02  0:13           ` Peter Williams
2004-10-02  0:19           ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-10-02  0:44             ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-04 15:43               ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-10-02  0:29           ` Badari Pulavarty
2004-10-02  0:42             ` Andrew Morton

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