Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754324Ab1EPKFf (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2011 06:05:35 -0400 Received: from icebox.esperi.org.uk ([81.187.191.129]:51427 "EHLO mail.esperi.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754129Ab1EPKFe (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 May 2011 06:05:34 -0400 From: Nix To: NeilBrown Cc: Jens Axboe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , "Ted Ts'o" Subject: Re: [BISECTED] 2.6.39rc: kobject-related reboot after RAID array initialization(?) post-QUEUE_FLAG_REENTER-removal References: <8762pboc0j.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> <20110516092113.60ed64d5@notabene.brown> Emacs: there's a reason it comes with a built-in psychotherapist. Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 11:05:18 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20110516092113.60ed64d5@notabene.brown> (NeilBrown's message of "Mon, 16 May 2011 09:21:13 +1000") Message-ID: <877h9reza9.fsf@spindle.srvr.nix> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-DCC-URT-Metrics: spindle 1060; Body=5 Fuz1=5 Fuz2=5 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 5894 Lines: 123 On 16 May 2011, NeilBrown said: > On Sun, 15 May 2011 23:05:32 +0100 Nix wrote: > >> After this change: >> >> commit c21e6beba8835d09bb80e34961430b13e60381c5 >> Author: Jens Axboe >> Date: Tue Apr 19 13:32:46 2011 +0200 >> >> block: get rid of QUEUE_FLAG_REENTER >> >> We are currently using this flag to check whether it's safe >> to call into ->request_fn(). If it is set, we punt to kblockd. >> But we get a lot of false positives and excessive punts to >> kblockd, which hurts performance. >> >> The only real abuser of this infrastructure is SCSI. So export >> the async queue run and convert SCSI over to use that. There's >> room for improvement in that SCSI need not always use the async >> call, but this fixes our performance issue and they can fix that >> up in due time. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe >> >> my system panics and reboots in early userspace. It is slightly >> difficult to figure out where -- the reboot happens so fast -- but it is >> either triggered by >> >> /sbin/mdadm --assemble --scan --auto=md >> >> (with mdadm v2.6.9, yes, I know, it's quite old but it works) >> >> or by >> >> /sbin/lvm vgscan --ignorelockingfailure --mknodes No it isn't. I'm sorry for misleading you. I ran the commands manually one by one in an emergency boot shell until I got a panic, and md is blameless. More below. >> (most probably the former, since I don't see any sign of lvm running in >> the text that blinks up right before the reboot, and the oops below >> mentions md1, not anything lvmish. >> >> netconsole reports this (ignore the fact that md1 is resyncing, that's >> because of previous instances of this bug!): >> >> [ 6.773532] md: md0 stopped. >> [ 6.976368] md: bind >> [ 6.978284] md: bind >> [ 6.980162] bio: create slab at 1 >> [ 6.981992] md/raid1:md0: active with 2 out of 2 mirrors >> [ 6.983745] md0: detected capacity change from 0 to 271319040 >> [ 6.987345] md: md1 stopped. >> [ 6.989411] md0: unknown partition table >> [ 7.000464] md: bind >> [ 7.002247] md: bind >> [ 7.003998] md/raid1:md1: not clean -- starting background reconstruction >> [ 7.005669] md/raid1:md1: active with 2 out of 2 mirrors >> [ 7.007330] md1: detected capacity change from 0 to 486936436736 >> [ 7.008982] md: resync of RAID array md1 >> [ 7.008984] md: minimum _guaranteed_ speed: 1000 KB/sec/disk. >> [ 7.008985] md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth (but not more than 200000 KB/sec) for resync. >> [ 7.008988] md: using 128k window, over a total of 475523864 blocks. >> [ 7.008990] md: resuming resync of md1 from checkpoint. >> [ 7.176568] md1: unknown partition table >> [ 7.350823] general protection fault: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP >> [ 7.353166] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/block/md1/dev >> [ 7.355496] CPU 1 >> [ 7.355514] Modules linked in: >> [ 7.360073] >> [ 7.362310] Pid: 0, comm: kworker/0:0 Not tainted 2.6.39-rc4-00119-g584f790-dirty #11 >> System manufacturer System Product Name /P6T >> [ 7.364629] RIP: 0010:[] [] kobject_put+0x11/0x4b >> [ 7.366921] RSP: 0018:ffff88033fc0e510 EFLAGS: 00010202 >> [ 7.369178] RAX: 0000000400000008 RBX: 3d9e2838ffff8813 RCX: 0000000000000003 >> [ 7.371417] RDX: ffff8803396feec8 RSI: ffff8803391ea800 RDI: 3d9e2838ffff8813 >> [ 7.373621] RBP: ffff88033fc0e520 R08: ffff88033fc0e530 R09: 00000000000003e8 >> [ 7.375827] R10: 0000000001887509 R11: 0000000200000000 R12: ffff8803391ea800 >> [ 7.378040] R13: ffff8803396fee00 R14: ffff88033d9e2848 R15: 0000000000001055 >> [ 7.380265] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88033fc40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 >> [ 7.382514] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b >> [ 7.384765] CR2: 00000000004051d0 CR3: 000000033a22c000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 >> [ 7.387037] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 >> [ 7.389325] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 >> [ 7.391610] Process kworker/0:0 (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff88033e256000, task ffff88033e254300) >> [ 7.393914] Stack: >> [ 7.396196] ffff88033fc0e530 ffff88033d9e2800 ffff88033fc0e530 ffffffff81367f19 >> [ 7.398544] ffff88033fc0e580 ffffffff81381614 ffff88033a2669c0 3d9e2838ffff8803 >> [ 7.400876] 0000000000000053 ffff8803396fee00 0000000000000202 0000000000000246 >> [ 7.403207] Call Trace: >> [ 7.405481] Code: 89 de 48 c7 c7 d8 ee 7d 81 31 c0 e8 c8 7b 33 00 e8 >> 9d 79 33 00 5b 41 5c c9 c3 55 48 89 e5 53 48 89 fb 48 83 ec 08 48 85 ff >> 74 36 47 3c 01 75 20 49 89 f8 48 8b 0f 48 c7 c2 ed ee 7d 81 be 53 >> >> [ 7.411141] RIP [] kobject_put+0x11/0x4b >> [ 7.413725] RSP >> [ 7.416289] ---[ end trace 2a57282106bd5f52 ]--- >> [ 7.418831] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt >> [ 7.421364] Pid: 0, comm: kworker/0:0 Tainted: G D 2.6.39-rc4-00119-g584f790-dirty #11 >> [ 7.423926] Call Trace: This crash is caused by *fsck*, to be specific by this line in my initramfs: fsck -t $TYPE -a $ROOT where $TYPE is "ext4" and $ROOT is "/dev/main/root", an filesystem atop LVM atop md. fsck kicks up, does a journal replay, and then we panic. Why we panic is unclear: it's hard to save output from strace in an emergency boot shell with nothing mounted, and I suspect that if fsck panics, mount will panic too (but I haven't tried it yet). -- NULL && (void) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/