From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.priebe@profihost.ag>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
"xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com" <xfs-masters@oss.sgi.com>,
"xfs@oss.sgi.com" <xfs@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: xfs deadlock in stable kernel 3.0.4
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 16:50:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110913205018.GA8543@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E6EF274.7050007@profihost.ag>
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 08:04:36AM +0200, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote:
> I just reported it to the scsi list as i didn't knew where the
> problems is. But then some people told be it must be a XFS problem.
>
> Some more informations:
> 1.) It's running with 2.6.32 and 2.6.38
> 2.) I can also write to another ext2 part on the same disk
> array(aacraid driver) while xfs stucks - so i think it must be an
> xfs problem
That points a bit more towards XFS, although we've seen storage setups
create issues depending on the exact workload. The prime culprit for
used to be the md software RAID driver, though.
> 3.) I've also tried running 3.1-rc5 but then i'm seeing this error:
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000012c
> IP: [] inode_dio_done+0x4/0x25
Oops, that's a bug that I actually introduced myself. Fix below:
Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c 2011-09-13 16:38:47.141089046 -0400
+++ linux-2.6/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c 2011-09-13 16:39:09.991647077 -0400
@@ -1300,6 +1300,7 @@ xfs_end_io_direct_write(
bool is_async)
{
struct xfs_ioend *ioend = iocb->private;
+ struct inode *inode = ioend->io_inode;
/*
* blockdev_direct_IO can return an error even after the I/O
@@ -1331,7 +1332,7 @@ xfs_end_io_direct_write(
}
/* XXX: probably should move into the real I/O completion handler */
- inode_dio_done(ioend->io_inode);
+ inode_dio_done(inode);
}
STATIC ssize_t
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-13 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-10 12:23 xfs deadlock in stable kernel 3.0.4 Stefan Priebe
2011-09-12 15:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-12 16:46 ` Stefan Priebe
2011-09-12 20:05 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-13 6:04 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-13 19:31 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-13 20:50 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2011-09-13 21:52 ` [xfs-masters] " Alex Elder
2011-09-13 21:58 ` Alex Elder
2011-09-13 22:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 7:26 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-14 7:48 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-14 8:49 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-14 14:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 14:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-14 16:06 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-18 9:14 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-18 20:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-19 10:54 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-18 23:02 ` Dave Chinner
2011-09-20 0:47 ` Stefan Priebe
2011-09-20 1:01 ` Stefan Priebe
2011-09-20 10:09 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-20 16:02 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-20 17:23 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-20 17:24 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-20 17:35 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-20 22:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-21 2:11 ` [xfs-masters] " Dave Chinner
2011-09-21 7:40 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-21 11:42 ` Dave Chinner
2011-09-21 11:55 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-21 12:26 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-21 13:42 ` Stefan Priebe
2011-09-21 16:48 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-21 17:26 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-21 19:01 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-21 23:07 ` Dave Chinner
2011-09-22 14:14 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-22 21:49 ` Dave Chinner
2011-09-22 22:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-23 5:28 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-22 0:53 ` Dave Chinner
2011-09-22 5:27 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-22 7:52 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-21 7:36 ` Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG
2011-09-21 11:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-09-21 13:39 ` Stefan Priebe
2011-09-21 14:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
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