On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, David Ford wrote:
> Rik van Riel wrote:
>
> > > How broken is it? I have a test9-pre7 system that's exhibits an
> > > elusive bug, reiserfs hangs at boot time, and all I need is a
> > > backtrace on the D state processes.
> >
> > Could be a VM bug. ;)
>
> It could, but I strongly doubt it. We've seen this bug [very]
> infrequently for the last year.
OK, then it's almost certainly not VM related...
(which also means I can't fix it in little time)
> I'm rather hesitant to trust my findings, kdb says all the
> processes are in schedule+nn. Yes, it can be related but I'm a
> wee bit dubious.
Schedule() is the last function in the kernel they
went into before they got scheduled away ;)
The second last function is the one you're interested
in ...
> I'd post all my trace findings but I really don't want to cross
> type all that right now -- I left my serial cable at the office.
> I'll post the traces tomorrow. The simple version of them is as
> follows:
>
> PC: schedule()
> -1: down()
> -2: down_fail()
> ...
>
> Some processes have devfs calls following this, some have
> typical kernel init calls etc., but the common factor in all of
> them is they all sit in schedule and they all have the same PC
> location.
Then I guess something was trying to take the same
semaphore twice and deadlocked, taking the rest of
the system with it...
> During normal operation of the machine, -T shows processes
> having PCs of 0x00000000 and 0x7f000000 which strikes me as a
> bit odd.
>
> For e.g. the following:
>
> sshd S 7FFFFFFF 0 247 88 248 (NOTLB)
> 121
> sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 : X
> bash S 00000000 0 248 247 263 (NOTLB)
> sig: 0 0000000000000000 0000000000010000 : X
Sysrq-T is broken on x86 ;((((((((
(very much to my dismay ... this is one of the best
debugging helps we have^Whad and I could have used
it quite well)
regards,
Rik
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