linux-kernel - Re: Strange freeze on 2.6.22 (deadlock?)

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Message-ID: <4784046B.5000004@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:16:59 -0500
From:	Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>
To:	Brice Figureau <brice+lklm@...sofwonder.com>
CC:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Strange freeze on 2.6.22 (deadlock?)

On 01/07/2008 02:06 PM, Brice Figureau wrote:
 
> Thanks for the answer.
> I'm using whatever is the default mount option (which I think is
> data=ordered). The only other mount option I use is nodiratime,noatime.
> 
> Note that a large part of the processes in D state are "waiting" in
> __mutex_lock from generic_file_aio_write.
> Another large part is coming from balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited_nr.
> 
> It seems that there was some writeback congestion to the block device.
> All the /proc/sys/vm/* files are at their defaults.
> 
> This looks like if it wasn't possible to write to the block device anymore.
> Could a block device write error (ie hardware failure) be the root cause?
> 
> Any other idea?
> What should I try the next time it freezes?

Same bug as http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/1/469 ??
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