On Mon, 16 Jul 2012, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 11:14 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On Sun, 2012-07-15 at 10:59 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > > Can you figure out on which lock the stuck thread which did not unplug > > > due to tsk_is_pi_blocked was blocked? > > > > I'll take a peek. > > Sorry for late reply, took a half day away from box. Jan had already > done the full ext3 IO deadlock analysis: > > Again kjournald is waiting for buffer IO on block 4367635 (sector > 78364838) to finish. Now it is dbench thread 0xffff88026f330e70 which > has submitted this buffer for IO and is still holding this buffer behind > its plug (request for sector 78364822..78364846). The dbench thread is > waiting on j_checkpoint mutex (apparently it has successfully got the > mutex in the past, checkpointed some buffers, released the mutex and > hung when trying to acquire it again in the next loop of > __log_wait_for_space()). And what's holding j_checkpoint mutex and not making progress? Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
