Re: khubd and ent:sda1 sucking CPU with reiser4 + USB HD

[Oliver Neukum]

Am Dienstag, 6. MÃrz 2007 05:13 schrieb Eric Buddington:
> reiser4[khubd(163)]: commit_current_atom (fs/reiser4/txnmgr.c:1049)[nikita-3176]:
> WARNING: Flushing like mad: 16384
> reiser4[khubd(163)]: commit_current_atom (fs/reiser4/txnmgr.c:1049)[nikita-3176]:
> WARNING: Flushing like mad: 32768
> ...<many simiar messages>
> 
> Most problematically, khubd and ent:sda1! are conspiring to suck 100%
> CPU time, even after powering off the drive. A bunch of processes are
> stuck in 'D' state, possibly because they're trying to access the dead
> disk, which won't umount ("device is busy").

It looks like khubd allocates memory and enters reiser4. Possibly we have
GFP_KERNEL in khubd where we should have GFP_NOIO or reiser4 has
a problem dealing with IO failures.

	Regards
		Oliver

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