linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24 regression: pan hanging unkilleable and un-straceable

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Message-Id: <200801221625.58615.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:25:58 +1100
From:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc:	Frederik Himpe <fhimpe@...enet.be>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.24 regression: pan hanging unkilleable and un-straceable

On Tuesday 22 January 2008 16:03, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 11:05 +1100, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 January 2008 07:58, Frederik Himpe wrote:
> > > With Linux 2.6.24-rc8 I often have the problem that the pan usenet
> > > reader starts using 100% of CPU time after some time. When this
> > > happens, kill -9 does not work, and strace just hangs when trying to
> > > attach to the process. The same with gdb. ps shows the process as
> > > being in the R state.
> > >
> > > I pressed Ctrl-Alt-SysRq-T, and this was shown for pan:
> > > Jan 21 21:45:01 Anastacia kernel: pan           R  running task       
> > > 0
> >
> > Well I've twice tried to submit a patch to print stacks for running
> > tasks as well, but nobody seems interested. It would at least give a
> > chance to see something.
>
> I've hit same twice recently (not pan, and not repeatable).

Nasty. The attached patch is something really simple that can sometimes help.
sysrq+p is also an option, if you're on a UP system.

Any luck getting traces?


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