Re: fio signal 11

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 06/11/2016 08:56 PM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 06/10/2016 12:42 PM, Jeff Furlong wrote:
>> Good point.  Here is the trace:
>>
>> [New LWP 59231]
>> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
>> Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1".
>> Core was generated by `fio --name=test_job --ioengine=libaio
>> --direct=1 --rw=write --iodepth=32'.
>> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
>> #0  0x0000000000421e39 in regrow_log (iolog=0x7f828c0c5ad0) at
>> stat.c:1909
>> 1909        if (!cur_log) {
>>
>> (gdb) bt
>> #0  0x0000000000421e39 in regrow_log (iolog=0x7f828c0c5ad0) at
>> stat.c:1909
>> #1  0x000000000042d4df in regrow_logs (td=td@entry=0x7f8277de0000) at
>> stat.c:1965
>> #2  0x000000000040ca90 in wait_for_completions
>> (td=td@entry=0x7f8277de0000, time=time@entry=0x7fffcfb6b300) at
>> backend.c:446
>> #3  0x000000000045ade7 in do_io (bytes_done=<synthetic pointer>,
>> td=0x7f8277de0000) at backend.c:991
>> #4  thread_main (data=data@entry=0x264d450) at backend.c:1667
>> #5  0x000000000045cfec in run_threads (sk_out=sk_out@entry=0x0) at
>> backend.c:2217
>> #6  0x000000000045d2cd in fio_backend (sk_out=sk_out@entry=0x0) at
>> backend.c:2349
>> #7  0x000000000040d09c in main (argc=22, argv=0x7fffcfb6f638,
>> envp=<optimized out>) at fio.c:63
>
> That looks odd, thanks for reporting this. I'll see if I can get to this
> on Monday, if not, it'll have to wait until after my vacation... So
> while I appreciate people running -git and finding issues like these
> before they show up in a release, might be best to revert back to 2.2.11
> until I can get this debugged.

I take that back - continue using -git! Just pull a fresh copy, should
be fixed now.

Jan, the reporter is right, 2.11 works and -git does not. So I just ran
a quick bisect, changing the logging from every second to every 100ms to
make it reproduce faster. I don't have time to look into why yet, so I
just reverted the commit.

commit d7982dd0ab2a1a315b5f9859c67a02414ce6274f
Author: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Date:   Tue May 24 17:03:21 2016 +0200

     fio: Simplify forking of processes

-- 
Jens Axboe