Re: 2.6.19-rc2-mm1

[Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>]

Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 01:48 +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> 
>>Badari Pulavarty wrote:
>>
>>>On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 23:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.19-rc2/2.6.19-rc2-mm1/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>- Added the hwmon and i2c trees to the -mm lineup.  These are quilt-style
>>>> trees, maintained by Jean Delvare.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>LTP writev tests seems to lockup the machine. reiserfs issue ?
>>
>>...
>>
>>
>>>BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#2!
>>>
>>>Call Trace:
>>> <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8024a4ba>] softlockup_tick+0xfa/0x120
>>> [<ffffffff8022e10f>] __do_softirq+0x5f/0xd0
>>> [<ffffffff80232067>] update_process_times+0x57/0x90
>>> [<ffffffff80217e84>] smp_local_timer_interrupt+0x34/0x60
>>> [<ffffffff802185db>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4b/0x80
>>> [<ffffffff80326ce0>] __copy_user_nocache+0x20/0x150
>>> [<ffffffff8020a7e6>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x66/0x70
>>> <EOI>  [<ffffffff802b8de0>] reiserfs_get_block+0x0/0x10c0
>>> [<ffffffff80295198>] __block_prepare_write+0x158/0x470
>>> [<ffffffff802b8de0>] reiserfs_get_block+0x0/0x10c0
>>> [<ffffffff802954ca>] block_prepare_write+0x1a/0x30
>>> [<ffffffff802b7cea>] reiserfs_prepare_write+0xca/0x140
>>> [<ffffffff8024e9d2>] generic_file_buffered_write+0x2b2/0x610
>>
>>This is likely to be a reiserfs interaction with the pagecache write
>>deadlock fixes. Chris Mason just now identified a couple of issues
>>and is going to work on a fix.
>>
> 
> 
> No. seems to be generic issue .. (happens with ext3 also) :(

I think I may have missed a fix for ext3 ordered and journalled too
(I've just sent a patch to Andrew privately).

Sorry. Can you try with ext2? Alternatively, try with ext3 or reiserfs
and change the line in mm/filemap.c:generic_file_buffered_write from

		status = a_ops->commit_write(file, page, offset, offset+copied);
to
		status = a_ops->commit_write(file, page, offset, offset+bytes);

and see if that solves your problem (that will result in rubbish being
temporarily visible, but there is a similar problem upstream anyway, so it
shouldn't cause other failures in your test).

Thanks,
Nick

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