Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754201Ab2JPMsa (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:48:30 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:56667 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752356Ab2JPMs2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Oct 2012 08:48:28 -0400 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 14:48:25 +0200 From: Borislav Petkov To: Laurent CARON Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Vinod Koul , Dan Williams Subject: Re: Strange crash on Dell R720xd Message-ID: <20121016124825.GA8509@x1.osrc.amd.com> Mail-Followup-To: Borislav Petkov , Laurent CARON , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, Vinod Koul , Dan Williams References: <20121015213522.kaiyahro@trusted.unix-scripts.info> <20121016090353.GB7428@liondog.tnic> <20121016112301.lavahnga@trusted.unix-scripts.info> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20121016112301.lavahnga@trusted.unix-scripts.info> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1876 Lines: 56 On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:26:01AM +0200, Laurent CARON wrote: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:03:53AM +0200, Borislav Petkov wrote: > > That's: > > > > BUG_ON(async_tx_test_ack(depend_tx) || txd_next(depend_tx) || > > txd_parent(tx)); > > > > but probably the b0rkage happens up the stack. And this __raid_run_ops > > is probably starting the whole TX so maybe we should add > > linux-raid@vger.kernel.org to CC. Added. > > > Hi, > > The machines seem stable after disabling I/O AT DMA at the BIOS level. That's a good point because the backtrace goes through I/O AT DMA so it could very well be the culprit. Let's add some more people to Cc. Vinod/Dan, here's the BUG_ON Laurent is hitting: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=135033064724794&w=2 and it has ioat2_tx_submit_unlock in the backtrace. Disabling ioat dma in the BIOS makes the issue disappear so ... > > What is that "r510" thing in the kernel version? You have your patches > > ontop? If yes, please try reproducing this with a kernel.org kernel > > without anything else ontop. > > My kernel is vanilla from Kernel.org. The -r510 string is because I > tried it on a -r510 also. Ok, good. > > Also, it might be worth trying plain 3.6 to rule out a regression > > introduced in the stable 3.6 series. > > I tried 3.5.x, 3.6, 3.6.1, 3.6.2 with exactly the same results. > > For now, I did create more volumes, rsync lors of data over the network > to the disks with no crashs (after disabling I/O AT DMA). And when you do this with ioat dma enabled, you get the bug, right? So it is reproducible...? Thanks. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. -- 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/