Re: kernel freeze (not even an OOPS) on remount-ro+umount when using quotas

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Michael Tokarev wrote:

> This is something that has biten me quite successefully
> in last few days... ;)
>
> To make a long story short:
>
>  # mke2fs -j /dev/hda6
>  # mount -o usrquota /dev/hda6 /mnt
>  # cp -a /home /mnt                # to make some files to work with
>  # quotacheck -uc /mnt
>  # quotaon /mnt
>  # mount -o remount,ro             # this is the important step!
>  # ls -l /mnt /mnt/home            # to do "something" (also important)
>  # umount /mnt
>
> At this time (attempting to umount the read-only filesystem with quotas
> enabled), the machine freezes without any messages on the console.  No
> OOPS, no response, no nothing - until a hard reboot (powercycle).
>
> This happens on 2.6.11, 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 kernels -- ie, with "current"
> kernel release.
>

I just tried this on 2.6.13.1 and was not able to reproduce your hangup.
Have you tried turning on the nmi watchdog with "nmi_watchdog=2 lapic"?

If this blocks interrupts while it spins, you might be able to see what's
happening.  Also if interrupts are not blocked, try out sysrq-t and
friends.

-- Steve