linux-kernel - Re: ext3 IO latency measurements (was: Linux 2.6.29)

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Message-ID: <20090326124453.GA16499@elte.hu>
Date:	Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:44:53 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	David Rees <drees76@...il.com>, Jesper Krogh <jesper@...gh.cc>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: ext3 IO latency measurements (was: Linux 2.6.29)


* Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu> wrote:

> >   while :; do
> >     date
> >     make mrproper      2>/dev/null >/dev/null
> >     make defconfig     2>/dev/null >/dev/null
> >     make -j32 bzImage  2>/dev/null >/dev/null
> >   done &
>          ^^
> 
> So there would have been nothing to ^C; I assume you were running 
> this with a variant that didn't have the ampersand, which would 
> have run the whole shell pipeline in a detached background 
> process?

That was just the example - the real script did not go into the 
background so it was Ctrl-C-able. I've attached it.

> In any case, the workaround for this is to ^Z the script, and then 
> "kill %" it.
> 
> I'm pretty sure this is actually a bash problem.  When you send a 
> Ctrl-C, it sends a SIGINT to all of the members of the tty's 
> foreground process group.  Under some circumstances, bash sets the 
> signal handler for SIGINT to be SIGIGN.  I haven't looked at this 
> super closely (it would require diving into the bash sources), but 
> you can see it if you attach an strace to the bash shell driving a 
> script such as
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> while /bin/true; do
>       date
>       sleep 60
> done &
> 
> If you do a "ps axo pid,ppid,pgrp,args", you'll see that the bash 
> and the sleep 60 have the same process group.  If you emulate 
> hitting ^C by sending a SIGINT to pid of the shell, you'll see 
> that it ignores it.  Sleep also seems to be ignoring the SIGINT 
> when run in the background; but it does honor SIGINT in the 
> foreground --- I didn't have time to dig into that.
> 
> In any case, bash appears to SIGIGN the INT signal if there is a 
> child process running, and only takes the ^C if bash itself is 
> actually "running" the shell script.  For example, if you run the 
> command "date;sleep 10;date;sleep 10;date", the ^C only interrupts 
> the sleep command.  It doesn't stop the series of commands which 
> bash is running.

It happens all the time - and it does look like a Bash bug. I 
reported it to the Bash maintainer one or two years ago. He said
he does not see it as he's using MacOS X. Can dig into archives if 
needed.

	Ingo

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