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From: Thomas Klaube <thomas@klaube.net>
To: Slava Pestov <sp@datera.io>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>, linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bcache bug / fs freeze on heavy IO
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 09:37:38 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1858501439.6823577.1409643458898.JavaMail.zimbra@klaube.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACHGV4J6YA0gin=srs4frRMOpmW23+b_gVzWN_pLH5NviO6Zpg@mail.gmail.com>

----- Ursprüngliche Mail -----
> Von: "Slava Pestov" <sp@datera.io>
> An: "Thomas Klaube" <thomas@klaube.net>
> CC: "Kent Overstreet" <kmo@daterainc.com>, linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org
> Gesendet: Sonntag, 31. August 2014 22:34:52
> Betreff: Re: bcache bug / fs freeze on heavy IO
> 
> Hi Thomas,

Hi Slava,

> > Aug 26 01:52:06 ubuntu kernel: [18378.656038] BUG: unable to handle kernel
> > NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000099
> 
> I believe this is fixed in 3.17:
> 
> http://evilpiepirate.org/git/linux-bcache.git/commit/?h=bcache-dev&id=2452cc89063a2a6890368f185c4b6d7d8802179e
> 
> Can you either try upgrading your kernel, or as a workaround try
> increasing your bucket size. This will lower the btree depth (depth 2
> trees won't hit this problem).

I upgraded to 3.17.0-rc3 and rerun the fio tests for 10 hours without any 
problems (no suspect messages in dmesg, no fs errors and no hanging tasks 
or other problems). So it seems I am unable to trigger the problem in 
3.17.0-rc3 but I will perform some more tests....

Thanx and regards
Thomas Klaube

      reply	other threads:[~2014-09-02  7:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <318258231.4483994.1408694008758.JavaMail.zimbra@klaube.net>
2014-08-22  7:56 ` bcache bug / fs freeze on heavy IO Thomas Klaube
2014-08-22  9:34   ` Kent Overstreet
2014-08-22  9:38     ` Kent Overstreet
2014-08-22  9:42       ` Kent Overstreet
2014-08-22 12:51         ` Thomas Klaube
2014-08-26  6:38       ` Thomas Klaube
2014-08-31 20:34         ` Slava Pestov
2014-09-02  7:37           ` Thomas Klaube [this message]

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