Ok all of these symptoms are believed to be triggered by a hang during swapon. Here we are trying to add swap in a file directly on a FAT filesystem. Looking at a system suffering this issue we see the following:
[ 236.224024] INFO: task swapon:8293 blocked for more than 120 seconds. [ 236.224028] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. [ 236.224031] swapon D ebbb4000 0 8293 8278 [ 236.224035] d8823e58 00000082 c06d3380 ebbb4000 c0193c92 ebb2de00 c0687340 c07b4500 [ 236.224040] d8834b60 d8834dd8 c180d600 c06d5400 c180d600 16bb60b6 0000000f d8834dd8 [ 236.224044] 00000000 c06d9f8c f6963a10 f6963a14 ffffffff d8823e80 c0501c1e d8834b60 [ 236.224048] Call Trace: [ 236.224056] [<c0193c92>] ? buffered_rmqueue+0x1a2/0x2a0 [ 236.224060] [<c0501c1e>] __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x6e/0xb0 [ 236.224063] [<c0501a57>] mutex_lock+0x17/0x20 [ 236.224078] [<f8c7999f>] _fat_bmap+0x1f/0x50 [fat] [ 236.224086] [<f8c79980>] ? _fat_bmap+0x0/0x50 [fat] [ 236.224089] [<c01cf301>] bmap+0x31/0x40 [ 236.224092] [<c01abe9e>] setup_swap_extents+0x16e/0x400 [ 236.224096] [<c01ac6fa>] ? sys_swapon+0x5ca/0x820 [ 236.224099] [<c01ac7a2>] sys_swapon+0x672/0x820 [ 236.224102] [<c01beaba>] ? __fput+0x14a/0x1c0 [ 236.224106] [<c01bb5da>] ? sys_close+0x7a/0xc0 [ 236.224109] [<c0103f6b>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x2f Seems that we have hung during the attempt to map the blocks we are going to use for swap. Looking at upstream it appears there is a modification to the locking in this routine which would previously have caused such a deadlock: commit 3a95ea1155c5d44aa58dde2f64f0ddafe27fd1fb Author: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirof...@mail.parknet.co.jp> Date: Thu Mar 12 02:03:23 2009 +0900 Fix _fat_bmap() locking On swapon() path, it has already i_mutex. So, this uses i_alloc_sem instead of it. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirof...@mail.parknet.co.jp> Reported-by: Laurent GUERBY <laur...@guerby.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> This commit is missing in the Jaunty kernel. Will pull this back to Jaunty and get some test kernels built. -- installing ubuntu stoped on "installing system" on 0% without any progress for half an hour https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/376120 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs