Re: [1/6] 2.6.21-rc4: known regressions

[Linus Torvalds]

[ Ok, I think it's those timers again...

  Ingo: let me just state how *happy* I am that I told you off when you 
  wanted to merge the hires timers and NO_HZ before 2.6.20 because they 
  were "stable". You were wrong, and 2.6.20 is at least in reasonable 
  shape. Now we just need to make sure that 2.6.21 will be too.. ]

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Mingming Cao wrote:
> 
> I might missed something, so far I can't see a deadlock yet.
> If there is a deadlock, I think we should see ext3_xattr_release_block()
> and ext3_forget() on the stack. Is this the case?

No. What's strange is that two (maybe more, I didn't check) processes seem 
to be stuck in

	 [<c0318981>] schedule_timeout+0x70/0x8e
	 [<c03189b4>] schedule_timeout_uninterruptible+0x15/0x17
	 [<c01b964a>] journal_stop+0xe2/0x1e6
	 [<c01ba2b0>] journal_force_commit+0x1d/0x1f
	 [<c01b29fb>] ext3_force_commit+0x22/0x24
	 [<c01ad607>] ext3_write_inode+0x34/0x3a
	 [<c0189f74>] __writeback_single_inode+0x1c5/0x2cb
	 [<c018a096>] sync_inode+0x1c/0x2e
	 [<c01a9ff7>] ext3_sync_file+0xab/0xc0
	 [<c018c8c5>] do_fsync+0x4b/0x98
	 [<c018c932>] __do_fsync+0x20/0x2f
	 [<c018c960>] sys_fsync+0xd/0xf
	 [<c0104064>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

but that that thing is literally:

		...
                do {
                        old_handle_count = transaction->t_handle_count;
                        schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);
                } while (old_handle_count != transaction->t_handle_count);
		...

and especially if nothing is happening, I'd not expect 
"transaction->t_handle_count" to keep changing, so it should stop very 
quickly.

Maybe it's CONFIG_NO_HZ again, and the problem is that timeout, and simply 
no timer tick happening?

Bingo. I think that's it.

	active timers:
	 #0: hardirq_stack, tick_sched_timer, S:01
	 # expires at 9530893000000 nsecs [in -2567889 nsecs]
	 #1: hardirq_stack, hrtimer_wakeup, S:01
	 # expires at 10858649798503 nsecs [in 1327754230614 nsecs]
	  .expires_next   : 9530893000000 nsecs

See

	http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/16/288

and that in turn points to the kernel log:

	http://www.stardust.webpages.pl/files/tbf/bitis-gabonica/2.6.21-rc4/git-console.log
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