[PATCH 0/1] Was: Processes hang in an unkillable state

[Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>]

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On 04/12, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> On 04/12, Américo Wang wrote:
> >
> > Hmm, it must be stuck at
> >
> > lib/rwsem.c
> >
> >         /* wait to be given the lock */
> >         for (;;) {
> >                 if (!waiter.task)
> >                         break;
> >                 schedule();
> >                 set_task_state(tsk, TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
> >         }
> >
> > don't know why it still can't acquire the ->mmap_sem...
> >
> > Cc'ing Oleg...
>
> I seem to understand...
>
> Please wait a bit, I need to recheck.

Yes, mlock looks buggy. I'll report more info a bit later, but
I think we need something like this patch.

Oleg.