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From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
To: Nate Custer <nate@cpanel.net>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFT PATCH] blkio: alloc per cpu data from worker thread context( Re: kvm deadlock)
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 08:40:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111219134012.GA7175@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C1FB7932-7722-4160-8206-765B08EA5911@cpanel.net>

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 03:25:48PM -0600, Nate Custer wrote:
> 
> On Dec 16, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > Thanks for testing it Nate. I did some debugging and found out that patch
> > is doing double free on per cpu pointer hence the crash you are running
> > into. I could reproduce this problem on my box. It is just a matter of
> > doing rmdir on the blkio cgroup.
> > 
> > I understood the cmpxchg() semantics wrong. I have fixed it now and
> > no crashes on directory removal. Can you please give this version a
> > try.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Vivek
> 
> After 24 hours of stress testing the machine remains up and working without issue. I will continue to test it, but am reasonably confident that this patch resolves my issue.

That's good to know. While you continue to stress test, I will make some
minor modifications to the patch. (Thinking of delaying the retry of
allocation of per cpu memory in case previous attempts failed).

Thanks
Vivek

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-19 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <54FC5923-2123-4BDD-A506-EA57DCE0C1F6@cpanel.net>
     [not found] ` <20111214122511.GD18317@amt.cnet>
2011-12-14 13:43   ` kvm deadlock Avi Kivity
2011-12-14 14:00     ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-12-14 14:02       ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-14 14:06         ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-12-14 14:17           ` Nate Custer
2011-12-14 14:20             ` Marcelo Tosatti
2011-12-14 14:28             ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-14 14:27           ` Avi Kivity
2011-12-14 16:03     ` Jens Axboe
2011-12-14 17:03       ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-14 17:09         ` Jens Axboe
2011-12-14 17:22           ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-14 18:16             ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-14 18:41               ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-14 23:06                 ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-15 19:47       ` [RFT PATCH] blkio: alloc per cpu data from worker thread context( Re: kvm deadlock) Vivek Goyal
     [not found]         ` <E73DB38E-AFC5-445D-9E76-DE599B36A814@cpanel.net>
2011-12-16 20:29           ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-18 21:25             ` Nate Custer
2011-12-19 13:40               ` Vivek Goyal [this message]
2011-12-19 17:27               ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-19 17:35                 ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-19 18:27                   ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-19 22:56                     ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-20 14:50                       ` Vivek Goyal
2011-12-20 20:45                         ` Tejun Heo
2011-12-20 12:49                     ` Jens Axboe
2011-12-16 18:47 Nate Custer

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