Re: INFO: task mount:11202 blocked for more than 120 seconds

[Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2008, David Chinner wrote:
> Oh, dm-crypt. Well, I'd definitely start looking there. XFS has a
> history of exposing dm-crypt bugs, and these hangs appear to be I/O
> congestion/scheduling related and not XFS.

Yeah, I noticed that too, thanks for verifying this: during the 2nd bisect 
run, the box locked up hard when I accessed the device-mapper. I'm using a 
wrapper script to set up my luks/dm-crypt devices and still have to find 
out which command exactly triggers the lockup. So, maybe the hard lockup 
and the hangs are not so unrelated after all...oh well.

> Also, we haven't changed
> anything related to plug/unplug of block devices in XFS recently, so
> that also points to some other change as well...

Thanks for your assistance, David, I really appreciate it. I'll try to 
find out more about this dm-crypt thingy....

Christian.
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