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Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 12:45:17 +0900 (JST)
Message-Id: <20090614.124517.47505469.konishi.ryusuke@gmail.com>
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       llucax@gmail.com, konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp
Subject: Re: NILFS2 get stuck after bio_alloc() fail
From: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
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Hi,
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:32:11 -0300, Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> While testing nilfs2 (using 2.6.30) doing some "cp"s and "rm"s, I noticed
> sometimes they got stucked in D state, and the kernel had said the
> following message:
> 
>         NILFS: IO error writing segment
> 
> A friend gave me a hand and after adding some printk()s we found out that
> the problem seems to occur when bio_alloc()s inside nilfs_alloc_seg_bio()
> fail, making it return NULL; but we don't know how that causes the
> processes to get stucked.
> 
> PS: Please CC me.
> -- 
> Leandro Lucarella (luca) | Blog colectivo: http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/

Thank you for reporting this issue.

Could you get stack dump of the stuck nilfs task?
It is acquirable as follows if you enabled magic sysrq feature:

 # echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger

I will dig into the process how it got stuck.

P.S.
nilfs.org and the nilfs mailing list is stopping due to planned power
outage.  They will be back on June 15 0:30 a.m.

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http://nilfs.sourceforge.net/en/ during the period.

Regards,
Ryusuke Konishi
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