From: Maxim Levitsky on
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 10:26 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:52:00 +0200
> Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > > <4>[15241.042047] [<ffffffff8106620a>] ? prepare_to_wait+0x2a/0x90
> > > > <4>[15241.042159] [<ffffffff810790bd>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
> > > > <4>[15241.042271] [<ffffffff8140db12>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x42/0x80
> > > > <4>[15241.042386] [<ffffffff8112a390>] ? bdi_sched_wait+0x0/0x20
> > > > <4>[15241.042496] [<ffffffff8112a39e>] bdi_sched_wait+0xe/0x20
> > > > <4>[15241.042606] [<ffffffff8140af6f>] __wait_on_bit+0x5f/0x90
> > > > <4>[15241.042714] [<ffffffff8112a390>] ? bdi_sched_wait+0x0/0x20
> > > > <4>[15241.042824] [<ffffffff8140b018>] out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x78/0x90
> > > > <4>[15241.042935] [<ffffffff81065fd0>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x40
> > > > <4>[15241.043045] [<ffffffff8112a2d3>] ? bdi_queue_work+0xa3/0xe0
> > > > <4>[15241.043155] [<ffffffff8112a37f>] bdi_sync_writeback+0x6f/0x80
> > > > <4>[15241.043265] [<ffffffff8112a3d2>] sync_inodes_sb+0x22/0x120
> > > > <4>[15241.043375] [<ffffffff8112f1d2>] __sync_filesystem+0x82/0x90
> > > > <4>[15241.043485] [<ffffffff8112f3db>] sync_filesystem+0x4b/0x70
> > > > <4>[15241.043594] [<ffffffff811391de>] fsync_bdev+0x2e/0x60
> > > > <4>[15241.043704] [<ffffffff812226be>] invalidate_partition+0x2e/0x50
> > > > <4>[15241.043816] [<ffffffff8116b92f>] del_gendisk+0x3f/0x140
> > > > <4>[15241.043926] [<ffffffffa00c0233>] mmc_blk_remove+0x33/0x60 [mmc_block]
> > > > <4>[15241.044043] [<ffffffff81338977>] mmc_bus_remove+0x17/0x20
> > > > <4>[15241.044152] [<ffffffff812ce746>] __device_release_driver+0x66/0xc0
> > > > <4>[15241.044264] [<ffffffff812ce89d>] device_release_driver+0x2d/0x40
> > > > <4>[15241.044375] [<ffffffff812cd9b5>] bus_remove_device+0xb5/0x120
> > > > <4>[15241.044486] [<ffffffff812cb46f>] device_del+0x12f/0x1a0
> > > > <4>[15241.044593] [<ffffffff81338a5b>] mmc_remove_card+0x5b/0x90
> > > > <4>[15241.044702] [<ffffffff8133ac27>] mmc_sd_remove+0x27/0x50
> > > > <4>[15241.044811] [<ffffffff81337d8c>] mmc_resume_host+0x10c/0x140
> > > > <4>[15241.044929] [<ffffffffa00850e9>] sdhci_resume_host+0x69/0xa0 [sdhci]
> > > > <4>[15241.045044] [<ffffffffa0bdc39e>] sdhci_pci_resume+0x8e/0xb0 [sdhci_pci]
> > >
> > > So what's the hang? del_gendisk is doing IO? I'd assumed that it was
> > > because it was calling kobject_uevent, but userspace is frozen.
> >
> > This is a backtrace of a hang.
>
> But why did it hang? Because the BDI worker threads are trying to
> perform IO through a suspended device?
>
Something like that I guess.
Also this is 100% reproducible, and I can reproduce this with my own
driver too (by making the card detection workqueue be non freezable)


Best regards,
Maxim Levitsky

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