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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Greg Donald" <gdonald@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: INFO: task reiserfs/0:1322 blocked for more than 120 seconds
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:59:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ej4kypkr.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080819235258.fa775505.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:52:58 -0700")

Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> writes:
>
> Seems that about 100% of the reports we get of this warning triggering
> are sys_sync, transaction commit, etc.

And NFS -- i just had the kernel log on one of my nfsroot test systems
flooded recently with them when the ethernet cable was disconnected
for some time and nfs blocked.  Scared me first, but then after
analysis didn't seem very useful. I imagine it would scare normal
users far more.

-Andi

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-08-20  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-17  4:36 INFO: task reiserfs/0:1322 blocked for more than 120 seconds Greg Donald
2008-08-20  6:52 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-20  9:19   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-20 10:00     ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-20  9:59   ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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