Hi All
Device : Embedded device with SD card Kernel : 2.6.14 Problem : while copying data take SD card out , put it back ,the system crashes
Description:
udev is used for destruction and creation of device nodes and each time it inserted it gets new inode number.
Driver accepts read/write to/from SD card from request queues . When card is taken out it freezes the request queue from interrupt handler.User process waits in blocking mode (process like cp,mv into card) till the queue gets active. when the card is put back it reactivates the request queue.
But due to changed inode number of device(from using udev) the waiting userprocess continue to write to same inode old number and hence leads to crashing the system.
I dont know how to solve this problem. I wanted to kill the process by using kill command in some scripts which gets executed from udev scripts, but processes like cp,mv waits in uninterruptible mode , which ignores all the signals.
So how to terminate such processes from kernel? I tried to use send_sig() from kernel , which tries to kill process once it gets come out of uninterruptible mode to get new data from userprocess.
But problem is how to know which process is writing into the block queue?
I tried to dig into request structre ,but it doesnt store any information about who has written the data :(.
{ I also understands that , sometimes the process which has written data might not have exists}
Thanks for any help
Regards