Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Nov 2003 13:56:09 +0100 | From | Jan Kara <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.23pre6aa3 - possible ext3 deadlock |
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Hi,
> Followup to last test with 2.4.23pre6aa3. same config as before (ext3 > /ql2300 / bonnie++) I forgot to mention that I have quotas enabled on > the partition under test. > > There have been a few 2.4 / quota / ext3 deadlock-type mails on the > list recently so I'm sot sure if this is related. I can see an atime > update in the call trace of one of the bonnies but no dquot_ calls > anywhere. I haven't applied Jan's patch as it came out before I could > reliably reproduce this problem. Yes, actually there's still a deadlock there for ext3+quotas (patch is already written but not yet included in mainline I think) but as I've looked through the trace it doesn't seem to be the case. About a week ago I saw a report on deadlock of 2.4.22 with just plain ext3 without quotas - so can you try to reproduce the problem with quotas not compiled into the kernel (or just turning them off should be enough)?
> In the meantime I'll restart testing with noatime - which is how I'd > usually mount such a fs anyhow. > > The box seems to deadlock after 3-6 days of filesystem exercise. I have > repeated this 3 times. The last run was 6 days and and then I see all > disk I/O has ceased. The system remains pingable and sshd connects at > the TCP layer but nothing happens after that. The root filesystem is > ext3 but is a completely separate device (motherboard scsi) to the > filesystems running bonnie (external FC RAID). It seems that all > filesystem activity ceases. > > I have run the alt-sysrq-t ouput through ksymoops and attached. Hope > this is useful to someone who knows.
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