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SubjectRe: 2.6.23.1: mdadm/raid5 hung/d-state
Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> On 11/05/2007 03:36 AM, BERTRAND Joël wrote:
>> Neil Brown wrote:
>>> On Sunday November 4, jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com wrote:
>>>> # ps auxww | grep D
>>>> USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
>>>> root 273 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D Oct21 14:40
>>>> [pdflush]
>>>> root 274 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? D Oct21 13:00
>>>> [pdflush]
>>>>
>>>> After several days/weeks, this is the second time this has happened,
>>>> while doing regular file I/O (decompressing a file), everything on
>>>> the device went into D-state.
>>> At a guess (I haven't looked closely) I'd say it is the bug that was
>>> meant to be fixed by
>>>
>>> commit 4ae3f847e49e3787eca91bced31f8fd328d50496
>>>
>>> except that patch applied badly and needed to be fixed with
>>> the following patch (not in git yet).
>>> These have been sent to stable@ and should be in the queue for 2.6.23.2
>> My linux-2.6.23/drivers/md/raid5.c contains your patch for a long
>> time :
>>
>> ...
>> spin_lock(&sh->lock);
>> clear_bit(STRIPE_HANDLE, &sh->state);
>> clear_bit(STRIPE_DELAYED, &sh->state);
>>
>> s.syncing = test_bit(STRIPE_SYNCING, &sh->state);
>> s.expanding = test_bit(STRIPE_EXPAND_SOURCE, &sh->state);
>> s.expanded = test_bit(STRIPE_EXPAND_READY, &sh->state);
>> /* Now to look around and see what can be done */
>>
>> /* clean-up completed biofill operations */
>> if (test_bit(STRIPE_OP_BIOFILL, &sh->ops.complete)) {
>> clear_bit(STRIPE_OP_BIOFILL, &sh->ops.pending);
>> clear_bit(STRIPE_OP_BIOFILL, &sh->ops.ack);
>> clear_bit(STRIPE_OP_BIOFILL, &sh->ops.complete);
>> }
>>
>> rcu_read_lock();
>> for (i=disks; i--; ) {
>> mdk_rdev_t *rdev;
>> struct r5dev *dev = &sh->dev[i];
>> ...
>>
>> but it doesn't fix this bug.
>>
>
> Did that chunk starting with "clean-up completed biofill operations" end
> up where it belongs? The patch with the big context moves it to a different
> place from where the original one puts it when applied to 2.6.23...
>
> Lately I've seen several problems where the context isn't enough to make
> a patch apply properly when some offsets have changed. In some cases a
> patch won't apply at all because two nearly-identical areas are being
> changed and the first chunk gets applied where the second one should,
> leaving nowhere for the second chunk to apply.

I always apply this kind of patches by hands, and no by patch command.
Last patch sent here seems to fix this bug :

gershwin:[/usr/scripts] > cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4]
md7 : active raid1 sdi1[2] md_d0p1[0]
1464725632 blocks [2/1] [U_]
[=====>...............] recovery = 27.1% (396992504/1464725632)
finish=1040.3min speed=17104K/sec

Regards,

JKB
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