Re: Soft lockup problem

[Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>]

On Wed 08-02-12 00:16:15, Wolfram Gloger wrote:
> Thanks for your response.
> 
> > From: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> 
> >   Hmm, then this isn't really a deadlock (at least in your case) but only a
> > rather unresponsive system.
> 
> Well, like the subject says this is a "soft lockup"..
  We differ in terminology a bit but that's not really important when I
know what you mean :)

> When it happened the first time the system actually recovered
> after some hours.
> But like Gerard said, there is no apparent ground for this
> unresponsiveness, there are tons of memory free and no swapping.
  Yeah, interesting. There are no processes waiting for IO either so I'm
puzzled what causes you problems.
 
> > Looking at the backtraces you provided I don't
> > see anything really suspicious. Only maybe fsnotify_mark process - do you
> > use fsnotify?
> 
> I have configured CONFIG_FSNOTIFY=y indeed but don't think I'm using it
> from userspace..
  Well, apparently something uses it because fsnotify_mark thread is just
in the process of destroying some mark. Maybe you could run with
CONFIG_FSNOTIFY=n just to rule out some problems there...

								Honza
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
SUSE Labs, CR