Re: "blocked for more than 120 secs" --> a valid situation, how toprevent?

[Maxim Levitsky]

On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 19:41 -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> What's the purpose of this stack dump,
> and how can it be prevented in this NORMAL situation??
> 
> The command was "hdparm --security-erase NULL /dev/sdb",
> which takes about 66 minutes to complete on this particular drive.
> 
> I don't see any obvious way for the task to mark itself
> as needing longer than 120 secs to complete the operation.

There is other valid user case.
If application calls sys_sync and at same time the filesystem is written
by an other application, the sync can easily take more that 2 minutes.
Or if block device is slow (as it was with some flash cards).

Indeed it would be good to have a kind of touch_softlockup_watchdog().

Best regards,
	Maxim Levitsky

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