Re: [2.6.23] tasks stuck in running state?
From: Dmitry Adamushko
Date: Sun Oct 21 2007 - 13:34:54 EST
On 21/10/2007, Dmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 20/10/2007, Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > > On 10/19/2007 05:39 PM, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > >> On my main devel box, vanilla 2.6.23 on x86-64/Fedora-7, I'm seeing a
> > >> certain behavior at least once a day. I'll start a kernel build (make
> > >> -sj5 on this box), and it will "hang" in the following way:
> > >>
> > >
> > > Can you try to strace the hanging task?
> >
> > Well, to the system it's running, so that doesn't do much of anything...
> >
> > >
> > > 8482 pts/0 S+ 0:00 \_ /bin/sh /garz/repo/misc-2.6/scripts/hdrcheck.sh /garz/repo/misc-2.6/usr/include /garz/repo/misc-2.6/usr/include/linux/kernelcapi.h /garz/repo/misc-2.6/usr/include/linux/.check.kernelcapi.h
> > > 8484 pts/0 R+ 3:10 \_ grep ^[ \t]*#[ \t]*include[ \t]*< /garz/repo/misc-2.6/usr/include/linux/kernelcapi.h
> > > 8486 pts/0 S+ 0:00 \_ cut -f2 -d<
> > > 8487 pts/0 S+ 0:00 \_ cut -f1 -d>
> > > 8488 pts/0 S+ 0:00 \_ egrep ^linux|^asm
> > > [jgarzik@pretzel misc-2.6]$ strace -p8484
> > > Process 8484 attached - interrupt to quit
> > [sits there, chewing up CPU grepping a 47-line header file]
>
> I think, the following information would be helpful :
>
> (1) # cat /proc/PID/stat ; sleep 5; cat /proc/PID/stat
>
> as we could know :
>
> - whether utime or/and stime keeps increasing ;
>
> - one of the fields is actually 'eip' ... so we could, hopefully, more
> or less precisely localize the area of the code where it's looping.
sure, this 'eip' will be useless in this case.
[ ... ]
--
Best regards,
Dmitry Adamushko
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