Re: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state

Justin Piszcz
2007-11-04T21:51:58Z

On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Neil Brown wrote:

> On Sunday November 4, jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com wrote:
>> # ps auxww | grep D
>> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
>> root 273 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D Oct21 14:40 [pdflush]
>> root 274 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D Oct21 13:00 [pdflush]
>>
>> After several days/weeks, this is the second time this has happened, while
>> doing regular file I/O (decompressing a file), everything on the device
>> went into D-state.
>
> At a guess (I haven't looked closely) I'd say it is the bug that was
> meant to be fixed by
>
> commit 4ae3f847e49e3787eca91bced31f8fd328d50496
>
> except that patch applied badly and needed to be fixed with
> the following patch (not in git yet).
> These have been sent to stable@ and should be in the queue for 2.6.23.2
>

Ah, thanks Neil, will be updating as soon as it is released, thanks.

Justin.