[I sent the following to linux-kernel a few minutes ago; someone pointed out to me that linux-xfs was probably a better place to send it. Sorry for the duplicate.] Compiled a 4.2.5 kernel a few days ago. This morning, my machine was essentially unresponsive (couldn't log on) so I used alt-sysrq-{s,t,s,u,b} to reboot it, and after reboot it appears that the first suspicious message concerns xfsaild blocked for more than 300 seconds. The disks and filesystems are good as far as I know, and I never had any problem with my previous (4.1.4) kernel, so I guess this is a regression in 4.2. (I also had a similar issue with 4.3, which is probably due to the same cause and also XFS-related: <URL: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/11/4/104 >.) Please contact me for further information, or just to make me feel less lonely and helpless when facing this kind of bug. :-( Here are the first few and last lines of log, with links to the full logs and full config below: Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046048] INFO: task xfsaild/md117:14100 blocked for more than 300 seconds. Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046054] Not tainted 4.2.5-vega #1 Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046057] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046060] xfsaild/md117 D ffff88023fc14a00 0 14100 2 0x00000000 Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046066] ffff8800bbb07d18 0000000000000046 ffffffff817244c0 ffff8802345126c0 Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046071] ffff8800bbb07d08 ffffffff810a35ba ffff8800bbb07d58 ffff8800bbb08000 Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046075] ffff880231235528 0000000000000000 ffff880231235400 ffff880234460e00 Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046080] Call Trace: Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046090] [<ffffffff810a35ba>] ? try_to_del_timer_sync+0x4a/0x60 Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046095] [<ffffffff81531692>] schedule+0x32/0x80 Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046123] [<ffffffffa0815724>] _xfs_log_force+0x154/0x240 [xfs] Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046128] [<ffffffff8106f3c0>] ? wake_up_q+0x70/0x70 Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046143] [<ffffffffa0815835>] xfs_log_force+0x25/0x80 [xfs] Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046159] [<ffffffffa081f301>] ? xfs_trans_ail_cursor_done+0x11/0x30 [xfs] Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046173] [<ffffffffa081f4d8>] xfsaild+0x138/0x560 [xfs] Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046188] [<ffffffffa081f3a0>] ? xfs_trans_ail_cursor_first+0x80/0x80 [xfs] Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046203] [<ffffffffa081f3a0>] ? xfs_trans_ail_cursor_first+0x80/0x80 [xfs] Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046207] [<ffffffff81065d54>] kthread+0xc4/0xe0 Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046211] [<ffffffff81065c90>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x180/0x180 Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046215] [<ffffffff8153495f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70 Nov 8 08:08:14 vega kernel: [313800.046219] [<ffffffff81065c90>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x180/0x180 <snip> Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] Showing busy workqueues and worker pools: Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] workqueue xfs-log/md117: flags=0x14 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pwq 3: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=-20 active=2/256 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pending: xfs_buf_ioend_work [xfs], xfs_log_worker [xfs] Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] workqueue xfs-log/md118: flags=0x14 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pwq 3: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=-20 active=1/256 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pending: xfs_log_worker [xfs] Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] workqueue xfs-log/md115: flags=0x14 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pwq 3: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=-20 active=1/256 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pending: xfs_log_worker [xfs] Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] workqueue xfs-log/md120: flags=0x14 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pwq 3: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=-20 active=1/256 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pending: xfs_log_worker [xfs] Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] workqueue xfs-log/md113: flags=0x14 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pwq 3: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=-20 active=2/256 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] in-flight: 31546:xfs_log_worker [xfs] Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pending: xfs_buf_ioend_work [xfs] Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] workqueue xfs-log/md110: flags=0x14 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pwq 3: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=-20 active=1/256 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pending: xfs_log_worker [xfs] Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pool 0: cpus=0 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 workers=2 manager: 31448 idle: 31569 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pool 2: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 workers=2 manager: 31616 idle: 31510 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pool 3: cpus=1 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=-20 workers=2 manager: 31499 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pool 4: cpus=2 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 workers=2 manager: 31503 idle: 31571 Nov 8 11:18:01 vega kernel: [325187.487839] pool 8: cpus=0-3 flags=0x4 nice=0 workers=2 manager: 14279 idle: 31425 Kernel config: http://www.madore.org/~david/.tmp/config.20151108 Syslog reporting hung tasks and (at 11:18) output of alt-sysrq-t: http://www.madore.org/~david/.tmp/syslog.20151108 Initial dmesg: http://www.madore.org/~david/.tmp/dmesg.20151108 -- David A. 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