From: Piotr Nowojski <piotr.nowojski@adocean-global.com>
To: Zach Brown <zab@zabbo.net>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BTRFS deadlock (btrfs_join_transaction?)
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2013 12:30:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50FFC9B8.1020605@adocean-global.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130122195154.GB14246@lenny.home.zabbo.net>
W dniu 22.01.2013 20:51, Zach Brown pisze:
> It doesn't look like there's any easy answers in the code: no unbalanced
> lock and unlocks and nothing scary done while holding the lock. (Some
> list traversal, but the traces don't show another cpu stuck spinning on
> a corrupt list).
>
> If I had to guess, I'd guess that the lock got corrupted somehow. Maybe
> a race that has delayed work run on a freed structure.
>
> Would it be possible to enable some debugging options in the kernel
> you're building? DEBUG_LIST, DEBUG_SPINLOCK, and the various lockdep
> options (DEBUG_LOCKDEP, PROVE_LOCKING) might raise an alarm that would
> shed some light. Hopefully they wouldn't be unusably slow.
>
> - z
We will try to give it a shot. But it might be hard to reproduce. This
problem occurred only once, after one week of very heavy (over)stress
tests. Is it at least possible to confirm, that this is definitely the
BTRFS problem?
Piotr
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-23 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-22 16:52 BTRFS deadlock (btrfs_join_transaction?) Piotr Nowojski
2013-01-22 19:51 ` Zach Brown
2013-01-23 11:30 ` Piotr Nowojski [this message]
2013-01-23 18:34 ` Zach Brown
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