On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 03:25 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.32-22 > Severity: normal > > Recently, I've had a problem with tasks that apparently get hung on a > syscall. For example: > > Oct 8 02:57:54 lakeview kernel: [84840.484280] INFO: task Xorg:4560 blocked for more than 120 seconds. > > When this occurs, even "sudo kill -9 4560" does not work. The kernel > should properly and immediately terminate processes receiving a SIGKILL > as root, even (especially) if that process is hung on a syscall. In general, this can leave kernel structures in an invalid state. This is not a desirable result and so fatal signals do not work that way. There are variants of sleeping and locking functions that return immediately on receipt of a fatal signal, and it is desirable that these are used in the implementation of system calls. However, the implementations of system calls include parts of every file system, driver and network protocol in the system. There is no central place where such changes could be made. > The > inability to do this means that the machine becomes unusable when Xorg > hangs. Would you care to provide more information about the context in which this happens? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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