Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-27T17:24:16Z

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>> Following is SysRq-T output for stuck processes during such a pause from
>> Christian Klose. Only processes in D state are listed for brevity.
>> Especially the last two call traces are interesting.

On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:27:00PM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> A "pause" is perfectly fine (to some extent, of course), now a hang is
> not. Is this backtrace from a hanged, unusable kernel or ?

This sounds like deadlocked proceses, but not a whole system hang.
Sounds like a correctness issue, not a performance issue.

-- wli