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From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: XFS / writeback invoking soft lockup.
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 11:22:28 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131213162228.GA29908@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131213111639.GD23546@infradead.org>

On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 03:16:39AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
 > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 09:48:53PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
 > > All I can say is that there doesn't look to be any obvious signs
 > > that this is a XFS or writeback problem fom the stack trace, and
 > > without more information or a reproducable test case I'm not going
 > > to be able to understand the cause.
 > > 
 > > Is the problem reproducable, or is it just a one-off?
 > 
 > If it's reproducable it would be good to enable the xfs_writepage
 > tracepoint and get a trace-cmd log of it.

I hit it pretty reliably last night.  I'll make a note to look into it 
on monday with that enabled.

	Dave


  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-13 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-12-13  7:14 XFS / writeback invoking soft lockup Dave Jones
2013-12-13 10:48 ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-13 11:16   ` Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-13 16:22     ` Dave Jones [this message]
2013-12-14  8:20       ` Dave Chinner

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