Bug#514627: mdadm: autocheck generates errors: INFO: task md1_resync:5528 blocked for more than 120 seconds

[NeilBrown]

On Tue, February 10, 2009 6:36 pm, martin f krafft wrote:
> tags 514627 wontfix
> thanks
>
> also sprach Fabio Muzzi <debianbugs at kurgan.org> [2009.02.09.1654 +0100]:
>> [36167.934923] INFO: task md1_resync:5528 blocked for more than 120
>> seconds.
>> [36167.934979] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs"
>> disables this message.
>
> I am seeing those too. It's a new "feature" in the kernel. The only
> way to work against it would be by making checkarray process arrays
> in series, which might take a lot longer and would unnecessarily
> complicate the script. Thus, I am marking this bug wontfix.

For the record, this is fixed by kernel patch
 commit 9744197c3d7b329590c2be33ad7b17409bd798fe

which is in 2.6.28

NeilBrown