linux-ext4 - Re: Fwd: Ext4 bug with fallocate

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Date:	Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:57:32 -0500
From:	Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com>
To:	Fredrik Andersson <nablaman@...il.com>
CC:	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: Ext4 bug with fallocate

Fredrik Andersson wrote:
> Hi, I'd like to report what I'm fairly certain is an ext4 bug. I hope
> this is the right place to do so.
> 
> My program creates a big file (around 30 GB) with posix_fallocate (to
> utilize extents), fills it with data and uses ftruncate to crop it to
> its final size (usually somewhere between 20 and 25 GB).
> The problem is that in around 5% of the cases, the program locks up
> completely in a syscall. The process can thus not be killed even with
> kill -9, and a reboot is all that will do.

does echo w > /proc/sysrq-trigger (this does sleeping processes; or use 
echo t for all processes) show you where the stuck threads are?

-Eric

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