Re: [linux 3.4 question] reboot command stall when vdbench test

[Weng Meiling <wengmeiling.weng@huawei.com>]

On 2014/6/11 20:12, Jan Kara wrote:
>   Hello,
> 
> On Wed 11-06-14 16:19:12, Weng Meiling wrote:
>> We run vdbench test in our suse system with kernel 3.4, the vdbench test
>> is about different block size seq and rand read/write. Before the vdbench
>   Hum, this looks like some relatively old (not supported anymore)
> openSUSE, right?
> 
>> test, we had did some test about: disk message lookup, raid rebuild(note
>> we use hard raid: SAS2008 RAID).
>>
>> we used nohup to run the vdbench test script:
>>
>> #nohup ./vdbench_batch_test &
>>
>> During test,  we cat the result file:
>>
>> #cat nohup.out
>>
>> at this time, the cat command stalled, then try to reboot, but the system
>> didn't reboot, and the reboot also stalled, shutdown gone to uninterruptible
>> sleep:
>   Yeah, looking at the logs from sysrq, the machine seems to be waiting for
> IO to complete which never happened. Most often I've seen this happening
> because of a bug in driver for the hardware raid sometimes also because of
> a bug in the firmware of the card itself. So I'd update the card firmware
> to the latest version and check changes to the driver since the kernel
> version you run.
> 

Thanks for your reply, we will check if there are some suspicious points in
the driver and firmware.

Weng Meiling
Thanks!
>> root     21716  0.0  0.0   4276   556 ?        D    18:31   0:00 cat nohup.out
>> root     21726  0.0  0.0  17880  2876 ?        Ds   18:33   0:00 -bash
>> root     21868  0.0  0.0   8224   740 ?        D    19:03   0:00 shutdown -r 0 w
>> root     21892  0.0  0.0  17880  2884 ?        Ds   19:11   0:00 -bash
>> root     21967  0.0  0.0   8224   740 ?        D    19:19   0:00 shutdown -r 0 w
>> root     21970  0.0  0.0  86044  3680 ?        Ss   19:19   0:00 sshd: root@pts/4
>> root     21975  0.0  0.0  17880  2880 pts/4    Ss   19:19   0:00 -bash
>> root     22000  0.0  0.0  12932  1280 pts/4    T    19:20   0:00 top
>>
>> after several hours the system gone to dead, all the ssh connect stalled,
>> we can't connect to this server any more. The status kept for a week,
>> finally we had to reboot the system by power key. After system reboot, we
>> done the same steps to try to reproduce the problem for more than a
>> month, but it didn't happen again.
>>
>> We had analysed the code and lock information according the call trace,
>> also review linux 3.4+ mainline patch to find similar problem fix, but no
>> result.
>>
>> Many others met the similar problem because use SAN/NFS/multipath devices, but we don't use none of these.
>>
>> The attachments are our test program and dmesg information we get by
>> sysrq before system dead.  Does anyone met the problem before? Any
>> suggestion is appreciative. Thanks!
> 
> 								Honza
>