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Message-ID: <20091120012930.GA3985@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:29:30 +0100
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: Zombie process when ptracing
Hi,
On 11/19, Nick Piggin wrote:
>
> Running recent git kernel, I have a process stuck in Z state
>
> bash ? 0000000000000000 0 3188 3187 0x00000000
> ffff88012e24fec8 0000000000000046 0000000000000000 0000000000000012
> ffff88012e24fec8 ffff88012e24e000 ffff88012e24ffd8 ffff88012e24e000
> 000000000000efc8 ffff88012e24e000 ffff88012ea82090 ffff88012ff78640
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff8124baee>] ? proc_clear_tty+0x5e/0x70
> [<ffffffff810587a8>] ? exit_ptrace+0xb8/0x140
> [<ffffffff8105126a>] do_exit+0x58a/0x7c0
> [<ffffffff810514dd>] do_group_exit+0x3d/0xb0
> [<ffffffff81051562>] sys_exit_group+0x12/0x20
> [<ffffffff8100b3eb>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>
> This was after stracing a few test programs.
>
> It also seems to have lost job control (^C) at the same time.
This can happen if the tracer (strace) itself hangs, zombies
should go away once the tracer is killed. Or its ->real_parent
is stopped or hangs...
(I assume you didn't strace /sbin/init)
But,
> Hmm, and the kernel just paniced with an nmi lockup while I was
> trying to get more info.
this probably means we have a kernel bug ;)
If you see a zombie again, could you look at its /ptoc/pid/status?
And of course, which programs did you trace and how? It would be
great if we can reproduce the problem.
Oleg.
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