Re: 2.6.18 mmap hangs unrelated apps

[Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>]

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 20:30 -0600, Michal Sabala wrote:
> Hello LKML,
> 
> I am observing processes entering uninterruptible sleep apparently due
> to an unrelated application using mmap over nfs. Applications in
> "uninterruptible sleep" hang indefinitely while other applications
> continue working properly.
> 
> The code causing the mmap nfs hangs does the following:
> (as replicated by the included test-mmap.c file)
> 
>   1. create file on nfs (file_A, descr_A)
>   2. make file_A a sparse 200MB file
>   3. mmap descr_A
>   4. close descr_A
>   5. unlink file_A
>   6. memcpy 200MB to mmaped buffer
>   7. create a second file on nfs (file_B, descr_B)
>   8. write() 200MB from mmaped buffer to descr_B
>   9. close descr_B
>   10. munmap first file
> 
> This code may need to be ran tens to hundred runs to trigger the condition.
> 
> During the execution of the above code, unrelated applications enter
> uninterruptible sleep (D) - usually firefox2.0, Xorg/XFree86, gimp2.2, gconfd
> or bash; probably the most active processes.
> 
> `dmesg` shows nothing of interest.
> 
> `free` shows anywhere between 1MB and 80MB of memory still remaining
> free when the problem occurs.
> 
> `cat /proc/*PID*/wchan` for all hanging processes contains page_sync.

Have you tried an 'echo t >/proc/sysrq-trigger' on a client with one of
these hanging processes? If so, what does the output look like?

Cheers
  Trond