On Thu, Sep 09 2010 at 3:15pm -0400, Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 09 2010 at 2:35pm -0400, > Ryan Harper <ryanh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > * Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> [2010-09-09 12:56]: > > > > I have verified that I no longer get the hang if I switch the root > > > device from virtio to ide. > > > > And in the failing case, do you see: > > > > /sys/block/vda/serial > > > > attribute in sysfs? Interestingly, just this loop: while true ; do cat /sys/block/vda/serial && date && sleep 1 ; done Thu Sep 9 15:29:30 EDT 2010 ... Thu Sep 9 15:31:19 EDT 2010 caused the following hang: INFO: task cat:1825 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. cat D 000000010000e784 5664 1825 1467 0x00000080 ffff88007bbcdce8 0000000000000046 ffff88007bbcdc88 ffff880000000000 ffff88007bbcdfd8 ffff88007b42a400 00000000001d4040 ffff88007bbcdfd8 00000000001d4040 00000000001d4040 00000000001d4040 00000000001d4040 Call Trace: [<ffffffff8136de23>] io_schedule+0x73/0xb5 [<ffffffff811b6882>] get_request_wait+0xf2/0x180 [<ffffffff8105d8da>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x39 [<ffffffff811b6951>] blk_get_request+0x41/0x71 [<ffffffff811b69ad>] blk_make_request+0x2c/0x8b [<ffffffffa0016073>] virtblk_get_id+0x57/0x93 [virtio_blk] [<ffffffffa00160d0>] virtblk_serial_show+0x21/0x4d [virtio_blk] [<ffffffff81265f7c>] dev_attr_show+0x27/0x4e [<ffffffff81157f0b>] ? sysfs_read_file+0x94/0x17f [<ffffffff810c6d6b>] ? __get_free_pages+0x18/0x55 [<ffffffff81157f34>] sysfs_read_file+0xbd/0x17f [<ffffffff81100e7a>] vfs_read+0xab/0x108 [<ffffffff8106e428>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x11d/0x141 [<ffffffff81100f97>] sys_read+0x4a/0x6e [<ffffffff81002bf2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b 2 locks held by cat/1825: #0: (&buffer->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81157eaf>] sysfs_read_file+0x38/0x17f #1: (s_active#14){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff81157f0b>] sysfs_read_file+0x94/0x17f So it seems like the virtio requests aren't being properly cleaned up? -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel