Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762035AbXHWMwV (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:52:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757878AbXHWMwM (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:52:12 -0400 Received: from iucha.net ([209.98.146.184]:37912 "EHLO mail.iucha.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757730AbXHWMwL (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 08:52:11 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:52:10 -0500 From: Florin Iucha To: Trond Myklebust Cc: Jiri Kosina , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Michal Piotrowski Subject: NFS woes again Was: [linux-usb-devel] USB-related oops in sysfs with linux v2.6.23-rc3-50-g28e8351 Message-ID: <20070823125210.GQ10422@iucha.net> References: <20070815145313.GC7124@iucha.net> <20070821115115.GD10422@iucha.net> <20070821125718.GH10422@iucha.net> <20070821131759.GI10422@iucha.net> <20070821132704.GJ10422@iucha.net> <20070822132200.GO10422@iucha.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jx/LfW4V5TfZLeq7" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070822132200.GO10422@iucha.net> X-GPG-Key: http://iucha.net/florin_iucha.gpg X-GPG-Fingerprint: 5E59 C2E7 941E B592 3BA4 7DCF 343D 2B14 2376 6F5B User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3882 Lines: 105 --jx/LfW4V5TfZLeq7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Trond, Fess up... I'm closing in: http://iucha.net/2.6.23-rc3/2.6.23-rc-bisect.png [Dropping Jiri and linux-usb-devel from future postings. You are included now just for communicating the conclusion of this thread.] On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:22:00AM -0500, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 03:42:26PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Aug 2007, Florin Iucha wrote: > >=20 > > > There is another interesting angle to this: in the past, every time I= =20 > > > had keyboard problems, it used to be caused by the VFS and/or NFS...= =20 > > > after much wrangling, a bunch of bugs were fixed (Hi Trond, Peter,=20 > > > Alan!). Now, after the keyboard "locked up", I used the mouse to clos= e=20 > > > the gnome session, then I logged-in remotely to reboot. The reboot= =20 > > > process locked up and I need to use the reset button! The second tim= e=20 > > > the keyboard "locked up" I listed my processes, and I noticed that I = had=20 > > > a couple of bash processes and a ssh process in "D" state. Something = is=20 > > > fishy again in the VFS ;) > >=20 > > Yes, there were some NFS updates in between -rc2 and=20 > > 28e8351ac22de25034e048c680014ad824323c65. I'd be now even more curious= =20 > > what are you going to find by bisect, please let us know. > >=20 > > I added Trond to CC, full thread to be found at=20 > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/21/151 for reference. > >=20 > > Florin, it also might be useful to capture the states of stuck processe= ss=20 > > via alt-sysrq-T (or better by echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger), so that we= =20 > > know better where are they stuck. >=20 > This morning it took a bit longer to hang, but it happened. The > backtraces are at http://iucha.net/2.6.23-rc3/backtraces.gz . >=20 > I'll try a bisect session this weekend. florin@zeus $ git bisect bad Bisecting: 5 revisions left to test after this florin@zeus $ git bisect log git-bisect start # good: [d4ac2477fad0f2680e84ec12e387ce67682c5c13] Linux 2.6.23-rc2 git-bisect good d4ac2477fad0f2680e84ec12e387ce67682c5c13 # bad: [28e8351ac22de25034e048c680014ad824323c65] Merge git://git.kernel.or= g/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-fixes git-bisect bad 28e8351ac22de25034e048c680014ad824323c65 # bad: [8f2ea1fd3f97ab7a809e939b5b9005a16f862439] [POWERPC] Fix initializat= ion and usage of dma_mask git-bisect bad 8f2ea1fd3f97ab7a809e939b5b9005a16f862439 # good: [ff95f3df54609d9d4b9572f8a67d09922a645043] sched: remove the 'u64 n= ow' parameter from pick_next_task() git-bisect good ff95f3df54609d9d4b9572f8a67d09922a645043 # good: [be12014dd7750648fde33e1e45cac24dc9a8be6d] Merge git://git.kernel.o= rg/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched git-bisect good be12014dd7750648fde33e1e45cac24dc9a8be6d # good: [6a0ed91e361a93ee1efb4c20c4967024ed2a8dd7] hexdump: use const notat= ion git-bisect good 6a0ed91e361a93ee1efb4c20c4967024ed2a8dd7 # bad: [6adb31c90c47262c8a25bf5097de9b3426caf3ae] remove dubious legal stat= ment from uio-howto git-bisect bad 6adb31c90c47262c8a25bf5097de9b3426caf3ae florin --=20 Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 --jx/LfW4V5TfZLeq7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGzYL6ND0rFCN2b1sRAqMlAJ9hvBi5oVBeRYZfNwXDG3EmJNgQ4ACbB4V8 koRJC/8+P1x600SSS51NvZE= =+Adv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jx/LfW4V5TfZLeq7-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/