2.6.20 kernel hang with USB drive and vfat doing ftruncate

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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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