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From: Mike Hartman <mike@hartmanipulation.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New RAID causing system lockups
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:57:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTiknrUVCToYg8NM0dUX9kXVE_kTAwtuAqo09X-qj@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimzmoyq_KHA1Q3JgEJSj2iuwYwiHRNR=_ZuLQCZ@mail.gmail.com>

>>> I don't know yet what is causing the lock-up.  A quick look at your logs
>>> suggest that it could be related to the barrier handling.  Maybe trying to
>>> handle a barrier during a reshape is prone to races of some sort - I wouldn't
>>> be very surprised by that.
>>
>> Just note that during the second lockup no reshape or resync was going
>> on. The array state was stable, I was just writing to it.
>>
>>>
>>> I'll have a look at the code and see what I can find.
>>
>> Thanks a lot. If it was only a risk when I was growing/reshaping the
>> array, and covered by the backup file, it would just be an
>> inconvenience. But since it can seemingly happen at any time it's a
>> problem.
>>
>
> The lockup just happened again. I wasn't doing any
> growing/reshaping/anything like that. Just copying some data into the
> partition that lives on md0. dmesg_3.txt has been uploaded alongside
> the other files at http://www.hartmanipulation.com/raid/. The trace
> looks pretty similar to me.
>

The lockup just happened for the fourth time, less than an hour after
I rebooted to clear the previous lockup from last night. All I did was
boot the system, start the RAID, and start copying some files onto it.
The problem seems to be getting worse - up until now I got at least a
full day of fairly heavy usage out of the system before it happened.
dmesg_4.txt has been uploaded alongside the other files. Let me know
if there's any other system information that would be useful.

Mike
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-13 15:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-11 18:20 New RAID causing system lockups Mike Hartman
2010-09-11 18:45 ` Mike Hartman
2010-09-11 20:43 ` Neil Brown
2010-09-11 20:56   ` Mike Hartman
2010-09-13  6:28     ` Mike Hartman
2010-09-13 15:57       ` Mike Hartman [this message]
2010-09-13 23:51         ` Neil Brown
     [not found]           ` <AANLkTin=jy=xJTtN5mQ6U=rYw3p+_4-nmkhO7zqR0KLP@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-14  1:11             ` Mike Hartman
2010-09-14  1:35               ` Neil Brown
2010-09-14  2:50                 ` Mike Hartman
2010-09-14  3:35                   ` Mike Hartman
2010-09-14  3:48                     ` Neil Brown
     [not found]                       ` <AANLkTimXabL-TyjqJ81syrx-Oxn50qexbA8q9p22sxJt@mail.gmail.com>
2010-09-15 21:49                         ` Mike Hartman
2010-09-21  2:26                           ` Neil Brown
2010-09-21 11:28                             ` Mike Hartman
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2010-09-11 18:13 Mike Hartman
2010-09-11 18:12 Mike Hartman

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