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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 17:44:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041001174400.2482186a.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1096676374.12861.91.camel@dyn318077bld.beaverton.ibm.com>

Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> 
>  On Fri, 2004-10-01 at 16:49, Andrew Morton wrote:
>  > Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>  > >
>  > > Here is the full sysrq-t output.
>  > 
>  > What's this guy up to?
>  ...
>  > 
>  > Something is seriously screwed up if it's stuck in try_to_wake_up().  Tried
>  > generating a few extra traces?
>  > 
>  > Then again, maybe we're missing an up_read() somewhere.  hrm, I'll check.
>  > 
> 
>  It reproduced again. I think this is the one causing all the troubles..
> 
>  db2fmcd       D ffffffff80132e2a     0 10854   7636                    
>  (NOTLB)
>  00000101bae85ef8 0000000000000002 0000020800000018 00000101d9ddd550
>         0000000100000084 000001016d490e20 000001016d491158
>  00000101d9ddd550
>         0000000000000206 ffffffff801353cb
>  Call Trace:<ffffffff801353cb>{try_to_wake_up+971}
>  <ffffffff804455f0>{__down_write+128}
>         <ffffffff80125e6f>{sys32_mmap+143}
>  <ffffffff80124af1>{ia32_sysret+0}
> 
>  when I tried looking at /proc/10854 - it hung.

OK, so maybe that CPU is spinning in try_to_wake_up().  Can you tell if one
CPU is busy when this happens?

Or you could try Peter's suggestion:

--- 25/kernel/sched.c~a	2004-10-01 17:43:32.500700488 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/kernel/sched.c	2004-10-01 17:43:34.754357880 -0700
@@ -1606,7 +1606,7 @@ out_set_cpu:
 		task_rq_unlock(rql, &flags);
 		/* might preempt at this point */
 		rql = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
-		adjust_sched_timestamp(p, old_rq);
+//		adjust_sched_timestamp(p, old_rq);
 		old_state = p->state;
 		if (!(old_state & state))
 			goto out;
_


  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-02  0:46 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
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 [this message]
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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