System hangs after echo value > /sys/block/dm-0/queue/nr_requests

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

If you echo a value (any value; for example the default 128) to
/sys/block/dm-0/queue/nr_requests the shell you are in hangs.
After about 5 seconds, the whole system hangs 100%.

The system responds to interrupts (ping / sysrq) but that's it.
For the rest it's dead in the water.

This is with Linux 2.6.0 and the deadline IO scheduler.

There is no oops or panic. With sysrq I managed to get a backtrace
of the process doing the echo:

bash          R 00000001    16   657      1                 656 (NOTLB)
f6d45e60 00000082 c2432c80 00000001 00000003 00000000 c03ba4a0 00000000
       00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 f738b680 f738b714 c01484d4
       f738b714 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 f738b680 00001000 00000000
Call Trace:
 [<c01484d4>] vmtruncate+0x79/0x112
 [<c016f0b2>] inode_setattr+0x106/0x17d
 [<c016f29b>] notify_change+0x119/0x16a
 [<c013b0a5>] unlock_page+0x15/0x57
 [<c01482c2>] do_wp_page+0x2c7/0x2f2
 [<c013ee4b>] buffered_rmqueue+0xc4/0x143
 [<c013ef71>] __alloc_pages+0xa7/0x317
 [<c01ff557>] queue_var_store+0x23/0x31
 [<c01ff690>] queue_requests_store+0x11b/0x17d
 [<c01ff751>] queue_attr_store+0x32/0x36
 [<c0185a3a>] flush_write_buffer+0x3b/0x47
 [<c0185aa0>] sysfs_write_file+0x5a/0x69
 [<c0185a46>] sysfs_write_file+0x0/0x69
 [<c0156300>] vfs_write+0xb0/0x119
 [<c015640e>] sys_write+0x42/0x63
 [<c010b20b>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb


A "show regs" shows:

SysRq : Show Regs
 
Pid: 6, comm:             events/0
EIP: 0060:[<c01197b2>] CPU: 0
EIP is at smp_call_function+0x130/0x15b
 EFLAGS: 00000297    Not tainted
EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000001 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000002
ESI: 00000001 EDI: 00000297 EBP: f7fda580 DS: 007b ES: 007b
CR0: 8005003b CR2: 400c6fe0 CR3: 36c1d000 CR4: 000006d0
Call Trace:
 [<c0113780>] mce_checkregs+0x0/0x92
 [<c0113839>] do_mce_timer+0x27/0x2b
 [<c0113780>] mce_checkregs+0x0/0x92
 [<c01319f5>] worker_thread+0x1be/0x283
 [<c0113812>] do_mce_timer+0x0/0x2b
 [<c011f07d>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x12
 [<c011f07d>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x12
 [<c0131837>] worker_thread+0x0/0x283
 [<c0109269>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb

The sysrq reboot function doesn't work - it you use it, the kernel
stops responding to sysrq requests as well.

Mike.
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