Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Kernel 4.1 hang, apparently in __inet_lookup_established | From | Eric Dumazet <> | Date | Wed, 23 Sep 2015 09:31:19 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2015-09-23 at 10:25 +0200, Patrick Schaaf wrote: > Dear kernel developers, > > I recently started to upgrade my production hosts and VMs from the 3.14 series > to 4.1 kernels, starting with 4.1.6. Yesterday, for the second time after I > started these upgrades, I experienced one of our webserver VMs hanging. > > The first time this happened, the VM hung completely, all 5 virtual cores > spinning at 100%, ping still worked, but nothing else, including no virsh > console reaction - I had to destroy and restart that VM. No messages were to > be found. > > Yesterday, when it happened the second time, I found the VM spinning on a > single core only, and could still connect to it via ssh - but it stopped > accepting apache connections. The core it spun on showed 100% time used in > "si", with top, and it produced the messages appended below. The VM did not > shutdown properly when told to, and had to be destroyed again. > > If I read that dmesg output correctly it spins in __inet_lookup_established, > which indeed reads like it has infinite spin potential. But that code itself > did not change relative to the 3.14 series we've been running for a long time > without the issues - so the root cause would be something else. > > For our production systems I'll revert to the 3.14 series, but maybe this > report may help somebody understand what's going on. > > best regards > Patrick
You could try following commits :
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=ed2e923945892a8372ab70d2f61d364b0b6d9054
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=29c6852602e259d2c1882f320b29d5c3fec0de04
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