I know there is something about loop device hangs in the 2.4
TODO list and I don't know if that is supposed to be fixed.
If this BUG is known, please appreciate
[1.] One line summary of the problem:
[240-ac8] loop device hangs and sync does not return any more
[2.] Full description of the problem/report:
When I copy data to a ext2 filesystem mounted via loop0 the 'cp'
command stops after a while. The system is not dead but very
unusuable and I can't reboot because 'sync' is not working.
I am in single user mode on a 2way Pentium 166 w/o mmx SMP
system. 2.2.X is stable. The loop dev is compiled as a module.
I tried with 'noapic', 'maxcpus=1' and combination of both. I
have not tried a UP kernel. Same happens with 2.4.0-prerelease.
Copying (a lot of) data between "normal" mounted filesystems
works fine.
[3.] Keywords (i.e., modules, networking, kernel):
loop device, sync, module, SMP.
[4.] Kernel version (from /proc/version):
Linux version 2.4.0-ac8 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release))
#7 SMP Sat Jan 13 14:05:38 CET 2001
[5.] Output of Oops.. message (if applicable) with symbolic information
not available
[6.] A small shell script or example program which triggers the
problem (if possible)
dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=1M count=500
mke2fs file
mount -o loop=/dev/loop0 file /mnt/loop
cd $_
cp -av /bin/ /etc/ /sbin/ .
mkdir usr && cp -av /usr/bin usr/
[7.] Environment
[7.1.] Software (add the output of the ver_linux script here)
Kernel modules 2.4.1
Gnu C egcs-2.91.66
Gnu Make 3.77
Binutils 2.10.0.18
Linux C Library 2.1.2
Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.2
Procps 2.0.6
Mount 2.10r
Net-tools 1.53
Console-tools 1999.03.02
Sh-utils 2.0
Modules Loaded loop 3c59x sb sb_lib uart401 sound soundcore
[7.2.] Processor information (from /proc/cpuinfo):
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 2
model name : Pentium 75 - 200
stepping : 12
cpu MHz : 167.048
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 apic
bogomips : 333.41
processor : 1
... (same)
[7.3.] Module information (from /proc/modules):
loop 7808 0 (unused)
3c59x 24672 1 (autoclean)
sb 7712 0 (autoclean)
sb_lib 36192 0 (autoclean) [sb]
uart401 6640 0 (autoclean) [sb_lib]
sound 63024 0 (autoclean) [sb_lib uart401]
soundcore 4208 5 (autoclean) [sb_lib sound]
[7.4.] Loaded driver and hardware information
I am on an SCSI only system with aic7xxx and 2 4Gig IBM UW disk.
0000-001f : dma1
0020-003f : pic1
0040-005f : timer
0060-006f : keyboard
0070-007f : rtc
0080-008f : dma page reg
00a0-00bf : pic2
00c0-00df : dma2
00f0-00ff : fpu
0220-022f : soundblaster
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0330-0333 : MPU-401 UART
03c0-03df : vga+
03c0-03df : matrox
03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1
6000-60ff : Adaptec AIC-7880U
6000-60fe : aic7xxx
6400-647f : 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone]
6400-647f : eth0
f000-f00f : Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 IDE [Natoma/Triton II]
[X.] Other notes, patches, fixes, workarounds:
For what it's worth:
Data is copied from sda1 to sdb1 where the loop device is
located
I have a lot of NMI interrupts, nearly twice as much as from the
timer. Same is true for LOC.
Sometimes I even have some ERR but usually not more than 10.
When using sysrq to do an emergency sync and a killall I get:
(from memory)
NMI Watchdog detected LOOKUP on CPU0
and the calltrace (resolved)
do_exit do_signal do_pollfd signal_return
Thanks in advance
Tilmann
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