Re: 2.6.16.32 stuck in generic_file_aio_write()

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 16:17:10 +0100 (CET)
Igmar Palsenberg <i.palsenberg@jdi-ict.nl> wrote:

> 
> > > It's rather large, but for those who want to look at it : 
> > > http://www.jdi-ict.nl/plain/serial-28112006.txt
> > 
> > The same problem, this time with 2.6.19. I've done a show tasks, a show 
> > locks, a show regs, and after that, a sync + reboot :)
> > 
> > Log is at http://www.jdi-ict.nl/plain/serial-04122006.txt .
> > 
> > If anyone needs more info : please tell me.
> 
> Done some more digging : isn't http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/13/139 somehow 
> related ? I do see pagefaults, and inode locks and mmap_locks. 
> 

I thought it was, but from my look through yout 8-billion-task backtrace,
no task was stuck in D-state with the appropriate call trace.

So I don't know what's causing this.  In the first trace you have at least
four D-state kjournalds and a lot of processes stuck on an i_mutex.  I
guess it's consistent with an IO system which is losing completion
interrupts.  AFAICT in the second trace all you have is a lot of processes
stuck on i_mutex for no obvious reason - I don't know why that would
happen.

How long does it take for this to happen?

Yes, lockdep might find something.