Hi, When I checked the freeze feature for ext4 filesystem using fsfreeze command at 2.6.38-rc3, I got the following messeges: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: INFO: task fsfreeze:2104 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: fsfreeze D ffff880076d5f040 0 2104 2018 0x00000000 Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: ffff88005a9f3d98 0000000000000086 ffff88005a9f3d38 ffffffff00000000 Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: 0000000000014d40 ffff880076d5eab0 ffff880076d5f040 ffff88005a9f3fd8 Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: ffff880076d5f048 0000000000014d40 ffff88005a9f2010 0000000000014d40 Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: Call Trace: Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff814aa5f5>] rwsem_down_failed_common+0xb5/0x140 Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff814aa693>] rwsem_down_write_failed+0x13/0x20 Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff8122f1a3>] call_rwsem_down_write_failed+0x13/0x20 Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff814a9c12>] ? down_write+0x32/0x40 Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff81155b48>] thaw_super+0x28/0xd0 Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff81164338>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x368/0x560 Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff81157c73>] ? sys_newfstat+0x33/0x40 Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff811645d1>] sys_ioctl+0xa1/0xb0 Feb 7 15:05:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff8100bf82>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b ... Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: INFO: task flush-8:0:1409 blocked for more than 120 seconds. Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: flush-8:0 D ffff880037777a30 0 1409 2 0x00000000 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: ffff880037c95a80 0000000000000046 ffff88007c8037a0 0000000000000000 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: 0000000000014d40 ffff8800377774a0 ffff880037777a30 ffff880037c95fd8 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: ffff880037777a38 0000000000014d40 ffff880037c94010 0000000000014d40 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: Call Trace: Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffffa00abb85>] ext4_journal_start_sb+0x75/0x130 [ext4] Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff81082fc0>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffffa0097f0a>] ext4_da_writepages+0x27a/0x640 [ext4] Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff81102c91>] do_writepages+0x21/0x40 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff811776b8>] writeback_single_inode+0x98/0x240 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff81177cfe>] writeback_sb_inodes+0xce/0x170 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff81178709>] writeback_inodes_wb+0x99/0x160 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff81178a8b>] wb_writeback+0x2bb/0x430 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff81178e2c>] wb_do_writeback+0x22c/0x280 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff81178f32>] bdi_writeback_thread+0xb2/0x260 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff81178e80>] ? bdi_writeback_thread+0x0/0x260 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff81178e80>] ? bdi_writeback_thread+0x0/0x260 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff81082936>] kthread+0x96/0xa0 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff8100cdc4>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff810828a0>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0 Feb 7 15:07:09 RX300S6 kernel: [<ffffffff8100cdc0>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 --------------------------------------------------------------------- I think the following deadlock problem happened: [flush-8:0:1409] | [fsfreeze:2104] --------------------------------------------+-------------------------------- writeback_inodes_wb | pin_sb_for_writeback | down_read_trylock(&sb->s_umount) | writeback_sb_inodes |thaw_super writeback_single_inode | down_write(&sb->s_umount) do_writepages | # stop until flush-8:0 releases ext4_da_writepages | # read lock of sb->s_umount... ext4_journal_start_sb | vfs_check_frozen | wait_event((sb)->s_wait_unfrozen, | ((sb)->s_frozen < (level))) | # stop until being waked up by | # fsfreeze... | --------------------------------------------+-------------------------------- Could anyone check this problem? Thanks, Masayoshi Mizuma -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html