Re: firefox is stuck in getbuf()

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:58:00AM +0800, David Xu wrote:
> With newest -HEAD code, firefox is stuck in getbuf().
> 
> top
> 
> last pid:  1814;  load averages:  0.00,  0.05,  0.07 
> 
>                                         up 0+00:37:11  10:54:01
> 135 processes: 1 running, 134 sleeping
> CPU:  3.7% user,  0.0% nice,  0.6% system,  0.0% interrupt, 95.7% idle
> Mem: 259M Active, 393M Inact, 151M Wired, 1484K Cache, 111M Buf, 186M Free
> Swap: 2020M Total, 2020M Free
> 
>   PID USERNAME    THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE   C   TIME   WCPU 
> COMMAND
>  1427 davidxu       1  45    0   114M   101M select  0   1:24  0.29% Xorg
>  1588 davidxu      10  44    0   279M   145M getbuf  0   2:15  0.00% 
> firefox-bin
> 
> 
> procstat  -k 1588
>   PID    TID COMM             TDNAME           KSTACK 
> 
>  1588 100200 firefox-bin      initial thread   mi_switch sleepq_switch 
> sleepq_wait _sleep getdirtybuf flush_deplist softdep_sync_metadata 
> ffs_syncvnode ffs_fsync VOP_FSYNC_APV fsync syscallenter syscall 
> Xint0x80_syscall
>  1588 100207 firefox-bin      -                mi_switch sleepq_switch 
> sleepq_catch_signals sleepq_wait_sig _cv_wait_sig seltdwait poll 
> syscallenter syscall Xint0x80_syscall
>  1588 100208 firefox-bin      -                mi_switch sleepq_switch 
> sleepq_catch_signals sleepq_wait_sig _sleep __umtx_op_cv_wait _umtx_op 
> syscallenter syscall Xint0x80_syscall
>  1588 100209 firefox-bin      -                mi_switch sleepq_switch 
> sleepq_catch_signals sleepq_timedwait_sig _sleep __umtx_op_cv_wait 
> _umtx_op syscallenter syscall Xint0x80_syscall
>  1588 100210 firefox-bin      -                mi_switch sleepq_switch 
> sleepq_catch_signals sleepq_timedwait_sig _sleep __umtx_op_cv_wait 
> _umtx_op syscallenter syscall Xint0x80_syscall
>  1588 100216 firefox-bin      -                mi_switch sleepq_switch 
> sleepq_catch_signals sleepq_wait_sig _sleep __umtx_op_cv_wait _umtx_op 
> syscallenter syscall Xint0x80_syscall
>  1588 100220 firefox-bin      -                mi_switch sleepq_switch 
> sleepq_wait _sleep getdirtybuf flush_deplist softdep_sync_metadata 
> ffs_syncvnode ffs_fsync VOP_FSYNC_APV fsync syscallenter syscall 
> Xint0x80_syscall
>  1588 100238 firefox-bin      -                mi_switch sleepq_switch 
> sleepq_catch_signals sleepq_wait_sig _sleep __umtx_op_cv_wait _umtx_op 
> syscallenter syscall Xint0x80_syscall
>  1588 100239 firefox-bin      -                mi_switch sleepq_switch 
> sleepq_catch_signals sleepq_wait_sig _sleep __umtx_op_cv_wait _umtx_op 
> syscallenter syscall Xint0x80_syscall
>  1588 100240 firefox-bin      -                mi_switch sleepq_switch 
> sleepq_catch_signals sleepq_wait_sig _sleep __umtx_op_cv_wait _umtx_op 
> syscallenter syscall Xint0x80_syscall

Can you, please, do the following:
show the backtraces for the system processes, in particular, syncer,
bufdaemon, softdepflush daemon, pagedaemon and vm ?
for the stuck firefox thread, find the address of the buffer
supplied as an argument to getdirtybuf, and print the *(struct buf *)addr ?
This can be done on the live/stuck system using kgdb on /dev/mem.