Bug 9323

Summary:	2.6.24-rc1 - Regularly getting processes stuck in D state on startup
Product:	Memory Management	Reporter:	Rafael J. Wysocki (rjwysocki)
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Andrew Morton (akpm)
Status:	CLOSED CODE_FIX
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.24-rc1	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	9243

Description Rafael J. Wysocki 2007-11-07 15:44:22 UTC

Subject         : 2.6.24-rc1 - Regularly getting processes stuck in D state on startup
Submitter       : David <david@unsolicited.net>
Confirmed-by    : Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
References      : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/5/229
Handled-By      : Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
                  Fengguang Wu <wfg@mail.ustc.edu.cn>
Patch           : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/6/33

Comment 1 Rafael J. Wysocki 2007-11-07 15:45:19 UTC

See also: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/11/7/31

Comment 2 Rafael J. Wysocki 2007-11-16 15:07:15 UTC

Fixed by:

commit 5fce25a9df4865bdd5e3dc4853b269dc1677a02a
Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date:   Wed Nov 14 16:59:15 2007 -0800

    mm: speed up writeback ramp-up on clean systems

http://git.kernel.org/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=5fce25a9df4865bdd5e3dc4853b269dc1677a02a