linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.32-rc4ish: task umount blocked for more than 120 seconds after USB drive removal

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Date:	Tue, 3 Nov 2009 15:18:12 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Subject: Re: 2.6.32-rc4ish: task umount blocked for more than 120 seconds
 after USB drive removal

On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:26:17 -0600
Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@...il.com> wrote:

> Running a post-2.6.32-rc4 git kernel, and just unmounted a USB drive 
> after writing a bunch of data to it, then pulled the plug after I 
> thought it had finished unmounting, but apparently it hadn't.. Ran into 
> a hung task warning that repeats every 120 seconds, the umount command 
> for the drive is stuck in D state.
> 
> The full SysRq-T output is shown at the bottom.. any ideas what it's 
> waiting for?

At a guess I'd say the new per-bdi writeback stuff blew up.  Is this
still happening in current mainline?

> Oct 20 21:42:42 newcastle kernel: usb 1-1.6: USB disconnect, address 5
> Oct 20 21:42:42 newcastle gnome-keyring-daemon[2598]: removing removable 
> location: volume_uuid_01E0_9221
> Oct 20 21:45:26 newcastle kernel: INFO: task umount:5380 blocked for 
> more than 120 seconds.
> Oct 20 21:45:26 newcastle kernel: "echo 0 > 
> /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
> Oct 20 21:45:26 newcastle kernel: umount        D 0000000000000002     0 
>   5380   2853 0x00000080
> Oct 20 21:45:26 newcastle kernel: ffff880118651bc8 0000000000000086 
> ffff880118651b68 00000000d54e0b08
> Oct 20 21:45:26 newcastle kernel: 00000000000004f1 ffff88013bbd9798 
> ffff8800282558b0 ffff880118651fd8
> Oct 20 21:45:26 newcastle kernel: ffff880118651fd8 ffff8800504cb280 
> 000000000000fb38 0000000000015840
> Oct 20 21:45:26 newcastle kernel: Call Trace:
> Oct 20 21:45:26 newcastle kernel: [<ffffffff8117d534>] ? 
> bdi_sched_wait+0x0/0x39

It's remarkable how much harder these traces are to read post-wordwrapping.
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