From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Justin Piszcz Subject: Re: 2.6.31+2.6.31.4: XFS - All I/O locks up to D-state after 24-48 hours (sysrq-t+w available) Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:49:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20091019030456.GS9464@discord.disaster> <20091020003358.GW9464@discord.disaster> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dave Chinner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, Alan Piszcz List-Id: linux-raid.ids On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > >> >> >> On Tue, 20 Oct 2009, Dave Chinner wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 06:18:58AM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: >>>> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Dave Chinner wrote: >>>>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 04:17:42PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: >>>>>> It has happened again, all sysrq-X output was saved this time. >>>>> ..... >>>>> >>>>> All pointing to log IO not completing. >>>>> >>> .... >>>> So far I do not have a reproducible test case, >>> >>> Ok. What sort of load is being placed on the machine? >> Hello, generally the load is low, it mainly serves out some samba shares. >> >>> >>> It appears that both the xfslogd and the xfsdatad on CPU 0 are in >>> the running state but don't appear to be consuming any significant >>> CPU time. If they remain like this then I think that means they are >>> stuck waiting on the run queue. Do these XFS threads always appear >>> like this when the hang occurs? If so, is there something else that >>> is hogging CPU 0 preventing these threads from getting the CPU? >> Yes, the XFS threads show up like this on each time the kernel crashed. So >> far >> with 2.6.30.9 after ~48hrs+ it has not crashed. So it appears to be some >> issue >> between 2.6.30.9 and 2.6.31.x when this began happening. Any >> recommendations >> on how to catch this bug w/certain options enabled/etc? >> >> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Dave. >>> -- >>> Dave Chinner >>> david@fromorbit.com >>> >> > > Uptime with 2.6.30.9: > > 06:18:41 up 2 days, 14:10, 14 users, load average: 0.41, 0.21, 0.07 > > No issues yet, so it first started happening in 2.6.(31).(x). > > Any further recommendations on how to debug this issue? BTW: Do you view > this > as an XFS bug or MD/VFS layer issue based on the logs/output thus far? > > Justin. > > Any other ideas? Currently stuck on 2.6.30.9.. (no issues, no lockups)-- Box normally has no load at all either.. Has anyone else reported similar problems? Justin.