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From: Tomasz Chmielewski <tch@virtall.com>
To: Qu Wenruo <quwenruo@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: linux-btrfs <linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel crashes with btrfs and busy database IO - how to debug?
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 17:35:11 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <73cb882c23a71c9039a0e7bbfddfab64@admin.virtall.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <557A8691.6070908@cn.fujitsu.com>

On 2015-06-12 16:13, Qu Wenruo wrote:

>> Remote syslog does not capture anything.
> No backtrace?

No (nothing saved on disk, don't have VNC access).

The only way to capture anything is:

while true; do dmesg -c ; done

but that's usually incomplete.


> Without backtrace, it's much harder to debug for us.
> It's quite possible that some codes go mad and pass a NULL pointer,
> and then wait_event() is called on the NULL->some_member.
> 
> Anyway, backtrace is needed to debug this.
> 
> If syslog can't help, what about kdump + crash to get the backtrace?

I'll try to get a kdump + crash.

-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org


  reply	other threads:[~2015-06-12  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-06-11 11:33 kernel crashes with btrfs and busy database IO - how to debug? Tomasz Chmielewski
2015-06-12  7:13 ` Qu Wenruo
2015-06-12  8:35   ` Tomasz Chmielewski [this message]
2015-06-12  9:09     ` Qu Wenruo
2015-06-12 23:23       ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2015-06-14  0:30         ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2015-06-14  7:58           ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2015-06-15  8:10             ` Qu Wenruo
2015-06-15 10:31               ` Tomasz Chmielewski
2015-06-12  7:53 ` Duncan
2015-06-12 16:26 ` Chris Mason

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