Re: 2.6.32-rc5: surprise removal of USB mass storage, and whole system goes to hell

[Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Oct 28 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28 2009, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 
> > > I did remove one harddrive w/o unmounting, and now the whole system
> > > becomes unusable :-(: (whole dmesg attached).
> > > 
> > > Stuff like "sync" hangs, and I'll probably have to reboot soon.
> > 
> > From the traces it seems that it might be related to the new per-bdi 
> > writeback stuff ... adding Jens to CC.
> 
> It looks like the IO isn't being errored on the device side, or perhaps
> it just got stuck. Pavel, if you can reproduce, please try with this
> tracing patch. Apply it, and then do something ala:
> 
> # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
> # echo 0 events/enable
> # echo 1 events/writeback/enable
> # echo 0 > trace
> 
> then start the act of reproducing, and finally
> 
> # cat trace > /tmp/foo
> 
> and send the output of foo here. Thanks!

I can reproduce this. The writeback work gets queued, we notice the task
isn't there and wake up the default task. And then nothing happens, I
wonder if the bdi is gone.

I'll fiddle around with this.

-- 
Jens Axboe