Re: 2.6.16.1 & D state processes

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue Apr 18 2006 - 00:09:05 EST


Srihari Vijayaraghavan <sriharivijayaraghavan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I've reported the same problem on FC5 kernels
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186856)
> too, assuming it was an FC only problem. But as it
> turns out, kernel.org kernels too suffer from this,
> though it took a while to prove that :(.

Your I/O system has lost some I/O requests: we sent write requests down,
and no completion ever came back.

It could be a broken device driver - please describe the I/O stack.

Or it could be lost interrupts - could be broken platform interrupt setup,
or broken hardware.
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