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Date:      Sun, 2 Nov 2014 21:49:23 +0200
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, Mark R V Murray <mark@grondar.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r273958 - head/sys/dev/random
Message-ID:  <20141102194922.GD53947@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <1414955700.1200.6.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
References:  <201411020201.sA221unt091493@svn.freebsd.org> <720EB74E-094A-43F3-8B1C-47BC7F6FECC3@grondar.org> <1414934579.17308.248.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <6FB65828-6A79-4BDE-A9F7-BC472BA538CE@grondar.org> <CAJ-VmomeOwE3LOpehhJ__G=FCoBDRXrrn%2BSfjwPFODts6YYHNQ@mail.gmail.com> <1414955700.1200.6.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>

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On Sun, Nov 02, 2014 at 12:15:00PM -0700, Ian Lepore wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-11-02 at 11:05 -0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > [snip all the conversation]
> > 
> > Ok. There's still a problem that I can trigger by trying to Ctrl-C a
> > process that's blocked reading for randomness. I'll try to chase up
> > more details about and file a PR about it.
> > 
> > The unfortunate part is that the kernel side stack trace of the
> > offending / hung process isn't currently helpful. :(
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -adrian
> 
> Possibly related... when I had the boot time save-entropy stuff stuck in
> a read yesterday I tried ^T and it first reported the hung process in a
> "block" wait.  Any subsequent ^T showed the process as runnable and the
> cpu usage as 100%.  This is on a single-core arm.
> 

Yes, this is because error from tsleep() in random_adaptor_read()
does not abort the loop.  But next loop iteration calls tsleep()
which returns immediately since there is still pending signal.
The process continues indefinitely.


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