I'm seeing an issue with a stock 2.6.20 kernel running on an embedded
PPC. I've got a usb flash drive plugged in and the filesystem on the
drive is vfat. Running with 64M and no swap.
If I execute a series of large (100M+) ftruncate() on the disk the
kernel will hang and never return. It seems to be stuck in the idle
loop().
The following is the test program I'm running:
#include <sys/mman.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <errno.h>
void usage (void)
{
printf ("truncate_test <filename> <size>\n\n");
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
int fd, i;
int ret = 0;
unsigned int len;
if (argc != 3) {
printf("Invalid number of arguments\n\n");
usage();
exit(1);
}
fd = open(argv[1], O_CREAT|O_RDWR|O_TRUNC, S_IRWXU);
len = strtoul(argv[2], NULL, 0);
ret = ftruncate(fd, len);
if (ret)
printf ("ftruncate ret = %d %d\n", ret, errno);
close(fd);
return ret;
}
I usually run the following twice to get the hang state:
time ./trunc_test bar 100000000 &
time ./trunc_test baz 100000000 &
I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on what to poke at next
to try and figure out what is going on.
- k
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