From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755243AbYHTJ7p (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:59:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751912AbYHTJ7g (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:59:36 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:49237 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751873AbYHTJ7f (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:59:35 -0400 To: Andrew Morton Cc: "Greg Donald" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven Subject: Re: INFO: task reiserfs/0:1322 blocked for more than 120 seconds From: Andi Kleen References: <15e66e4e0808162136r2a439ee9wbb20f2b1f8fabc77@mail.gmail.com> <20080819235258.fa775505.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:59:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080819235258.fa775505.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (Andrew Morton's message of "Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:52:58 -0700") Message-ID: <87ej4kypkr.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton 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