Re: 2.6.[45]-.*: weird behavior

["R. J. Wysocki" <rjwysocki@sisk.pl>]

On Sunday 04 of April 2004 00:15, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 of April 2004 21:50, Grzegorz Kulewski wrote:
> > > On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, R. J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Can you attach config files for both the AMD64 and the laptop?
> >
> > The config for the laptop is attached, the other one must wait.  If you
> > think of what they have in common, there's not much.
>
> Ok, some questions to that config file. Why do you have:
> - scsi emulation
> - scsi
> - both generic ide options
> - large block devices (2TB)?

SCSI support is necessary for USB storage, the rest is just for fun. :-)

> Can you post:
> - distro name and version

RH9

> - dmesg or log at the end of testing - better after such kb lock if you
> can reproduce, maybe after some stressing to see if any unnormal messages
> appeared
> - lspci -v
> - lsmod
> - mount
> - hdparm hdparm -iIvtT for all drives
> - some files from /proc describing configuration if you think they are
> important.

Well, I _really_ had not much time to track this.  If I'd had time, I'd 
probably have checked all these things already.  I don't think there are any 
unusual things about what you list, though.

> Does any process sleep in D state in ps output all the time or bechaves
> strangely? If so, maybe you should find and apply the patch for kernel
> stack for each process in /proc (it was included in wolk for example) and
> check what kernel function is causing the waits (for example I found some
> usb problems causing D state lock of processes using some usb ioctls).

Good idea, I can do that.

> If it all does not help, maybe you should compile kernel with all debug
> and kernel hacking options to see if some driver does not lock the kernel
> and sleep or something like that, or possibly try to find what changeset
> between 2.6.3 and 2.6.4 broke your setup :)

Well, the patch-2.6.4.bz2 is 2.2+M big.  That's _a_ _lot_ of changesets, so I 
don't think I can figure out this, unless I know which one could 
_potentially_ cause the effects that I observe.  Please, give me a hint, if 
you have any idea.

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