Re: EMC Clariion ghost devices

[Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:01:54AM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> That should not happen(tm). Where does it hang according to sysrq-t?
> 
> (kpartx supposedly is run against the dm-multipath table and not against
> sdap, so it should already benefit from the multipath protection...)
> 
> "sg_inq -P /dev/sdap" might also be worth a try, what does it report for
> the various paths?

	This reports a LUN_Z, which is what I expected after I
was explained a LUN_Z is the same as a ghost report.
	I get this in dmesg at multipath(8):

device-mapper: dm-multipath: 66:144: Error trying to initialize PG, failing path
device-mapper: dm-multipath: Failing path 66:144

66:144 is, indeed, /dev/sdap.  Kpartx is again hanging on:

# ps -ef | grep kpartx
root     26698 25674  0 10:53 ?        00:00:00 /sbin/kpartx -m -a /dev/dm-16

# ls -l /dev/disk/by-name | grep dm-16
/dev/disk/by-name/3500601609020ea1a500601609020ea1a -> ../../dm-16

# dmsetup deps 3500601609020ea1a500601609020ea1a
1 dependencies  : (66, 144)

# echo t > /proc/sysrq-trigger
kpartx        D 00000100bea0f680     0 26698  25674               25755 (NOTLB)
00000100c1511bc8 0000000000000006 00000100c05e00a0 000001d09566ce68
       0000000000000246 0000010081b54580 0000007300000001 000001007b608b10
       0000000100000001 0000010081b55660
Call Trace:<ffffffff802859a4>{generic_unplug_device+36} <ffffffff8013953f>{io_schedule+63}
       <ffffffff80163b39>{__lock_page_wq+233} <ffffffff8013ce40>{autoremove_wake_function+0}
       <ffffffff8016c518>{page_cache_readahead+328} <ffffffff8013ce40>{autoremove_wake_function+0}
       <ffffffff8016518c>{do_generic_mapping_read+876} <ffffffff801637a0>{file_read_actor+0}
       <ffffffff80166024>{__generic_file_aio_read+420} <ffffffff801661eb>{generic_file_read+187}
       <ffffffff8019592e>{do_open+318} <ffffffff8019712a>{cp_new_stat+234}
       <ffffffff8013ce40>{autoremove_wake_function+0} <ffffffff8018d184>{vfs_read+244}
       <ffffffff8018d3dd>{sys_read+157} <ffffffff80110794>{system_call+124}

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