https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32982
--- Comment #9 from Rafael J. Wysocki rjw@sisk.pl 2011-04-17 18:20:39 --- On Sunday, April 17, 2011, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Is this machine running a RAID5 setup or something like that?
There is a known interaction with the new block layer plugging code and MD. The "hung task" report in that bugzilla looks very much like that issue. And you do have "root=/dev/md0", so clearly there's some md thing going on.
And bisecting might not work all that well for it, because I suspect it ends up being very much a matter of IO patterns how it triggers.
Neil supposedly has a patch for it, but I haven't seen it yet. Neil, Jens?
Linus
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