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Date:      Sun, 9 Jul 2023 23:36:03 +0000
From:      John F Carr <jfc@mit.edu>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Current FreeBSD <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: shell hung in fork system call
Message-ID:  <52A8F775-17D9-4240-A444-98AD5339622F@mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <ZKtB8B_Fs0GwVCcP@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <909E2C96-3BFA-41AD-8EE7-0902231C2B95@mit.edu> <ZKtB8B_Fs0GwVCcP@kib.kiev.ua>

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> On Jul 9, 2023, at 19:25, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote=
:
>=20
> On Sun, Jul 09, 2023 at 10:41:27PM +0000, John F Carr wrote:
>> Kernel and system at a146207d66f320ed239c1059de9df854b66b55b7 plus some =
irrelevant local changes, four 64 bit ARM processors, make.conf sets CPUTYP=
E?=3Dcortex-a57.
>>=20
>> I typed ^C while /bin/sh was starting a pipeline and my shell got hung i=
n the middle of fork().
>>=20
>>> From the terminal:
>>=20
>> # git log --oneline --|more
>> ^C^C^C
>> load: 3.26  cmd: sh 95505 [fork] 5308.67r 0.00u 0.03s 0% 2860k
>> mi_switch+0x198 sleepq_switch+0xfc sleepq_timedwait+0x40 _sleep+0x264 fo=
rk1+0x67c sys_fork+0x34 do_el0_sync+0x4c8 handle_el0_sync+0x44=20
>> load: 3.16  cmd: sh 95505 [fork] 5311.75r 0.00u 0.03s 0% 2860k
>> mi_switch+0x198 sleepq_switch+0xfc sleepq_timedwait+0x40 _sleep+0x264 fo=
rk1+0x67c sys_fork+0x34 do_el0_sync+0x4c8 handle_el0_sync+0x44=20
>>=20
>> According to ps -d on another terminal the shell has no children:
>>=20
>>  PID TT  STAT       TIME COMMAND
>> [...]
>>  873 u0  IWs     0:00.00 `-- login [pam] (login)
>>  874 u0  I       0:00.17   `-- -sh (sh)
>> 95504 u0  I       0:00.01     `-- su -
>> 95505 u0  D+      0:00.05       `-- -su (sh)
>> [...]
>>=20
>> Nothing on the (115200 bps serial) console.  No change in system perform=
ance.
>>=20
>> The system is busy copying a large amount of data from the network to a =
ZFS pool on spinning disks.  The git|more pipeline could have taken some ti=
me to get going while I/O requests worked their way through the queue.  It =
would not have touched the busy pool, only the zroot pool on an SSD.
>>=20
>> Has anything changed recently that might cause this?
>=20
> There was some change around fork, but your sleep seems to be not from
> that change.  Can you show the wait channel for the process?  Do somethin=
g
> like
> $ ps alxww
>=20

 UID   PID  PPID  C PRI NI   VSZ   RSS MWCHAN   STAT TT        TIME COMMAND
   0 95505 95504  2  20  0 13508  2876 fork     D+   u0     0:00.13 -su (sh=
)

This is probably the same information displayed as [fork] in the output fro=
m ^T.

Does it correspond to the source line

	pause("fork", hz / 2);

?




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