On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 03:43:03PM -0800, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:

	Hello Neil ,

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, Neil Brown wrote:

quoted

On Monday July 21, babydr@baby-dragons.com wrote:

quoted

INFO: task pdflush:393 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
"echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
pdflush       D c8209f80  4748   393      2
         f75e5e58 00000046 f7f7ad50 c8209f80 f7f7a8a0 f75e5e24 c014fc57 00000000
         f7f7a8a0 e5d0dd00 c8209f80 f75e4000 c0819e00 c8209f80 f7f7aaf4 f75e5e44
         00000286 f75e5e80 f510de30 f75e5e58 c0142233 f510de00 f75e5e80 f510de30
Call Trace:
   [<c014fc57>] ? mark_held_locks+0x67/0x80
   [<c0142233>] ? add_wait_queue+0x33/0x50
   [<c03a7f85>] xfs_buf_wait_unpin+0xb5/0xe0
   [<c0127a60>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
   [<c0127a60>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x10
   [<c03a84fb>] xfs_buf_iorequest+0x4b/0x80
   [<c03adeee>] xfs_bdstrat_cb+0x3e/0x50
   [<c03a495c>] xfs_bwrite+0x5c/0xe0
   [<c039e941>] xfs_syncsub+0x121/0x2b0
   [<c018a43b>] ? lock_super+0x1b/0x20
   [<c018a43b>] ? lock_super+0x1b/0x20
   [<c039e1d8>] xfs_sync+0x48/0x70
   [<c03af833>] xfs_fs_write_super+0x23/0x30
   [<c018a80f>] sync_supers+0xaf/0xc0

Looks a lot like an XFS problem to me.
Or at least, XFS people would be able to interpret this stack the
best.

	Hmm ,  Ok ,  I'll post there ,  I can provide a -complete- boot ->  
renboot log of the actions ,  But it ain't small ~ 649K .  So I'll post 
that on the back of my website , ie:

http://www.baby-dragons.com/bonnie++1.03c-2.6.26-rc9.console.trace.log

Given that it's a log hang on 2.6.29-rc9, I'd first say add this commit:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=49641f1acfdfd437ed9b0a70b86bf36626c02afe

to your build (went in after -rc9 but before 2.6.26 was released)
and see if that solves the problem.

In more detail, this stack trace implies log I/O has not completed
after the log force was triggered in xfs_buf_wait_unpin(). The above
patch fixes a bug in log I/o dispatch where an non-atomic compare
and decrement would result in log I/O not being dispatched.

So, you've got a hang waiting for log I/o to complete on a kernel
that has a known problem with log I/O dispatch, so it's likely
that's what you've hit.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com