On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, Oliver Neukum wrote: > On Sunday 13 January 2013 18:42:49 Alex Riesen wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 5:56 PM, Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> > > wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, Alex Riesen wrote: > > >> > > >> Yes, almost. What about khubd hanging when machine is shutdown? > > > > > > What about it? I have trouble understanding all the descriptions you > > > have provided so far, because you talk about several different things > > > and change your mind a lot. Can you provide a single, simple scenario > > > that illustrates this problem? > > > > 1. Compile a kernel with deadline elevator as module > > 2. Boot into it, make sure the elevator is selected > > (I used "elevator=deadline" in the kernel command line) > > 3. Insert a FAT formatted mass storage device in an USB2 port > > Observe "io scheduler deadline registered" > > 4. Pull the stick out, wait a moment, and either shutdown or just > > and press alt-sysrq-W:
Indeed. I just tried booting into a kernel that has the deadline elevator built-in, not a module. Even then, when I specified "elevator=deadline" on the boot command line, the system hung up partway through booting. Hard to tell exactly where, because it occurred shortly after the switching from VGA to the framebuffer driver, so the screen was completely blank. When I get a chance, I'll try it on another machine where I can use a serial console. > That makes it clear. The elevator probably has scheduled work > which cannot finish waiting on a lock and scsi_remove_host() > wants to flush work. What is the work and why can't it finish? Or rather, how can we figure these things out? According to what Alex wrote, the blocked task doesn't show up in the Alt-SysRq-W listing. And don't forget that the listing shows scsi_remove_host() blocks waiting to acquire the host's scan_mutex. Not waiting for work to be flushed. This casts doubt on your explanation. > This is not a USB problem. You need to involve the SCSI people. > khubd just stops working because disconnects are processed > in its context and the removal deadlocks. The why whould building the deadline elevator as a module make any difference? Or does it make a difference? Alex, if the elevator is made static instead, do you still see the same behavior when the USB drive is removed? Also, are there any mounted filesystems on the drive when you unplug it? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
