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Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:54:03 +0800
From: Fengguang Wu <wfg@...l.ustc.edu.cn>
To: Florin Iucha <florin@...ha.net>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 10:24:29AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote:
[...]
> [ 3687.824468]
> [ 3687.824470] pdflush D ffffffff805787c0 0 248 2
> [ 3687.824473] ffff810006001d90 0000000000000046 0000000000000000 0000000000000286
> [ 3687.824476] ffff8100057fc770 ffff810003062000 ffff8100057fc978 0000000106001da0
> [ 3687.824480] 0000000000000003 ffffffff8023b1b2 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
> [ 3687.824483] Call Trace:
> [ 3687.824488] [<ffffffff8023b1b2>] __mod_timer+0xb8/0xca
> [ 3687.824492] [<ffffffff8055c87a>] schedule_timeout+0x8d/0xb4
> [ 3687.824496] [<ffffffff8023ad6c>] process_timeout+0x0/0xb
> [ 3687.824499] [<ffffffff8055c79a>] io_schedule_timeout+0x28/0x33
> [ 3687.824503] [<ffffffff8026bb24>] congestion_wait+0x6b/0x87
> [ 3687.824506] [<ffffffff80245983>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x38
> [ 3687.824510] [<ffffffff8029e684>] writeback_inodes+0xcd/0xd5
> [ 3687.824514] [<ffffffff80266dc4>] wb_kupdate+0xbb/0x10d
> [ 3687.824518] [<ffffffff80267165>] pdflush+0x0/0x1c3
> [ 3687.824520] [<ffffffff8026727d>] pdflush+0x118/0x1c3
> [ 3687.824523] [<ffffffff80266d09>] wb_kupdate+0x0/0x10d
> [ 3687.824527] [<ffffffff80245876>] kthread+0x49/0x77
> [ 3687.824530] [<ffffffff8020c598>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
> [ 3687.824535] [<ffffffff8024582d>] kthread+0x0/0x77
> [ 3687.824538] [<ffffffff8020c58e>] child_rip+0x0/0x12
> [ 3687.824540]
>
> What could cause this? I use NFS4 to automount the home directories
> from a Solaris10 server, and this box found a few bugs in the NFS4
> code (fixed in the 2.6.22 kernel).
>
> I'll try running with 2.6.23 again for a few days, to see if I get the
> pdflush stuck. Any other ideas?
It could be triggered by the more aggressive writeback behavior - the
new code will keep on retrying as long as there are dirty inodes pending.
Florin, would you try the attached patches against 2.6.24-git?
They may generate big traffic of printk messages, but will help
debug the problem.
Thank you,
Fengguang
View attachment "writeback-debug.patch" of type "text/x-diff" (1926 bytes)
View attachment "requeue_io-debug.patch" of type "text/x-diff" (1141 bytes)
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