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From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Subject: Re: Xen 3.4.2 kernel / lvcreate crash
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:25:16 -0700
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On 03/31/2010 05:34 PM, Valtteri Kiviniemi wrote:
> I am using Xen 3.4.2 with kernel 2.6.18.8 and Debian Lenny. I am having
> some problems with LVM-snapshots. I have crontab which makes once a
> night a snapshot from domU's LV.
>
> The problem is that maybe once in a month the lvcreate command stucks
> and after that I have to reboot the machine to solve the problem.
>
> So is this a problem on the Xen kernel or with Debian?

Someone reported a very similar crash with a Debian Xen kernel.  I would 
suspect a bug in the Debian Xen kernel.

     J

>
> dmesg shows the following:
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000030 RIP:
>  [<ffffffff804218a2>] __map_bio+0x45/0x9b
> PGD 38057067 PUD 10657067 PMD 0
> Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
> CPU 0
> Pid: 17350, comm: lvcreate Not tainted 2.6.18.8-dom0 #1
> RIP: e030:[<ffffffff804218a2>]  [<ffffffff804218a2>] __map_bio+0x45/0x9b
> RSP: e02b:ffff880028693d68  EFLAGS: 00010202
> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: 0000000000000001
> RDX: ffff8800311bfaf0 RSI: ffff8800219c38c0 RDI: ffffc200000f30d8
> RBP: ffff8800311bfae0 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 001322b628693ce8
> R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 00000000006cc4a0 R12: ffff8800219c38c0
> R13: fffffffff3800008 R14: ffff88003c56c5d8 R15: ffff8800311bfae0
> FS:  00002b35f3f7ac20(0000) GS:ffffffff805ca000(0000) 
> knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000
> Process lvcreate (pid: 17350, threadinfo ffff880028692000, task
> ffff88003cc510c0)
> Stack:  ffff88003f5a0440 0000000000000001 ffff88003c56c5c0 
> ffff88003c565400
>  fffffffff3800008 ffffffff804221b5 ffff88003c56c5d8 ffff88003f5a0440
>  ffff88003c56c5c0 ffff88003c565400 ffff8800252b1f10 ffffffff8025e099
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff804221b5>] __split_bio+0x1a9/0x3f7
>  [<ffffffff8025e099>] __down_write_nested+0x12/0xf1
>  [<ffffffff8022fe0e>] __up_write+0x1d/0x115
>  [<ffffffff804225b9>] dm_resume+0xa1/0x137
>  [<ffffffff80425158>] dev_suspend+0x0/0x171
>  [<ffffffff804252a3>] dev_suspend+0x14b/0x171
>  [<ffffffff80425bb6>] ctl_ioctl+0x1c6/0x20e
>  [<ffffffff8024012a>] do_ioctl+0x56/0x6c
>  [<ffffffff8022fddb>] vfs_ioctl+0x23a/0x250
>  [<ffffffff8024a42f>] sys_ioctl+0x3d/0x5c
>  [<ffffffff8025a21c>] system_call+0x68/0x6d
>  [<ffffffff8025a1b4>] system_call+0x0/0x6d
>
>
> Code: ff 50 30 41 89 c5 83 f8 00 7e 10 4c 89 e7 41 59 5b 5d 41 5c
> RIP  [<ffffffff804218a2>] __map_bio+0x45/0x9b
>  RSP <ffff880028693d68>
> CR2: 0000000000000030
>
>
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