Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764409AbXHWROt (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:14:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754089AbXHWROm (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:14:42 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.226]:59181 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753254AbXHWROl (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:14:41 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DlSrf9ITqYB/OYafKYADjvJR/Sj7SYrtbV57HFDVq/pmbMKoMxHCZk57QPqcGS46goEPt496EvGcH4gPZZi6YomsCcbDWjMrnV8OIbnPYSRek2cPCHaLnPhPe24VNrY9BTPHRv2CKaGFx1Usi8++Gj9McJoxDczJbHdpdt3oD9s= Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:14:38 -0700 From: "Bret Towe" To: "Florin Iucha" Subject: Re: NFS woes again Was: [linux-usb-devel] USB-related oops in sysfs with linux v2.6.23-rc3-50-g28e8351 Cc: "Trond Myklebust" , "Jiri Kosina" , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Michal Piotrowski" In-Reply-To: <20070823125210.GQ10422@iucha.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070821115115.GD10422@iucha.net> <20070821125718.GH10422@iucha.net> <20070821131759.GI10422@iucha.net> <20070821132704.GJ10422@iucha.net> <20070822132200.GO10422@iucha.net> <20070823125210.GQ10422@iucha.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3813 Lines: 80 On 8/23/07, Florin Iucha wrote: > 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: > > > > > > > There is another interesting angle to this: in the past, every time I > > > > had keyboard problems, it used to be caused by the VFS and/or NFS... > > > > after much wrangling, a bunch of bugs were fixed (Hi Trond, Peter, > > > > Alan!). Now, after the keyboard "locked up", I used the mouse to close > > > > the gnome session, then I logged-in remotely to reboot. The reboot > > > > process locked up and I need to use the reset button! The second time > > > > the keyboard "locked up" I listed my processes, and I noticed that I had > > > > a couple of bash processes and a ssh process in "D" state. Something is > > > > fishy again in the VFS ;) > > > > > > Yes, there were some NFS updates in between -rc2 and > > > 28e8351ac22de25034e048c680014ad824323c65. I'd be now even more curious > > > what are you going to find by bisect, please let us know. > > > > > > I added Trond to CC, full thread to be found at > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/21/151 for reference. > > > > > > Florin, it also might be useful to capture the states of stuck processess > > > via alt-sysrq-T (or better by echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger), so that we > > > know better where are they stuck. > > > > 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 . > > > > 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.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/steve/gfs2-2.6-fixes > git-bisect bad 28e8351ac22de25034e048c680014ad824323c65 > # bad: [8f2ea1fd3f97ab7a809e939b5b9005a16f862439] [POWERPC] Fix initialization and usage of dma_mask > git-bisect bad 8f2ea1fd3f97ab7a809e939b5b9005a16f862439 > # good: [ff95f3df54609d9d4b9572f8a67d09922a645043] sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from pick_next_task() > git-bisect good ff95f3df54609d9d4b9572f8a67d09922a645043 > # good: [be12014dd7750648fde33e1e45cac24dc9a8be6d] Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched > git-bisect good be12014dd7750648fde33e1e45cac24dc9a8be6d > # good: [6a0ed91e361a93ee1efb4c20c4967024ed2a8dd7] hexdump: use const notation > git-bisect good 6a0ed91e361a93ee1efb4c20c4967024ed2a8dd7 > # bad: [6adb31c90c47262c8a25bf5097de9b3426caf3ae] remove dubious legal statment from uio-howto > git-bisect bad 6adb31c90c47262c8a25bf5097de9b3426caf3ae > > florin > > -- > Bruce Schneier expects the Spanish Inquisition. > http://geekz.co.uk/schneierfacts/fact/163 > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFGzYL6ND0rFCN2b1sRAqMlAJ9hvBi5oVBeRYZfNwXDG3EmJNgQ4ACbB4V8 > koRJC/8+P1x600SSS51NvZE= > =+Adv > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- this sounds alot like the post i did yesterday titled 'nfs4 hang regression' i tracked it down to commit 3d39c691ff486142dd9aaeac12f553f4476b7a6 - 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/