linux-kernel - Re: Processes spinning forever, apparently in lock_timer

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Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:47:33 +0100
From:	richard kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	Matthias Hensler <matthias@...se.de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
Subject: Re: Processes spinning forever, apparently in lock_timer_base()?

On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 03:33 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:25:41 +0100 richard kennedy <richard@....demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > > That's all a bit crappy if the wrong races happen and some other task is
> > > somehow exceeding the dirty limits each time this task polls them.  Seems
> > > unlikely that such a condition would persist forever.
> > > 
> > > So the question is, why do we have large amounts of dirty pages for one
> > > disk which appear to be sitting there not getting written?
> > 
> > The lockup I'm seeing intermittently occurs when I have 2+ tasks copying
> > large files (1Gb+) on sda & a small read-mainly mysql db app running on
> > sdb. The lockup seems to happen just after the copies finish -- there
> > are lots of dirty pages but nothing left to write them until kupdate
> > gets round to it. 
> 
> Then what happens?  The system recovers?
Nothing -- it stays stuck forever.
I don't think kupdate is getting started, I added some debug in there
but haven't found out anything useful yet. But I am trying to build a
better test case, the one I've got at the moment can take hours to
trigger this problem. 

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