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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: fstests@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [whacky issue] xfs/277 endlessly looping in _require_xfs_io_command
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2017 19:13:30 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171011081330.GF15067@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171011080047.GE15067@dastard>

On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 07:00:47PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> HI folks,
> 
> I was wondering if anyone else had seen this problem, because it's
> got me absolutely stumped. One of my test VMs is having a really
> weird livelock in xfs/277. It's getting stuck in an endless loop
> burning the entire CPU in a the 277 process (i.e. running bash).
> What it is stuck on makes no sense to me, nor does the looping
> behaviour, and I can only reproduce it on this one machine.

FWIW, the trigger for this was enabling rmap+reflink on the test
device on this machine for the first time. Hence this is the first
time the test has been run on that machine...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-11  8:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-11  8:00 [whacky issue] xfs/277 endlessly looping in _require_xfs_io_command Dave Chinner
2017-10-11  8:13 ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2017-10-11 12:20   ` Dave Chinner
2017-10-11 10:39 ` Brian Foster
2017-10-11 10:48   ` Dave Chinner

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