Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:03:24 +0200 | From | Jens Axboe <> | Subject | Re: file_splice_read problem in 2.6.24.2? |
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On Thu, Jun 05 2008, Tristan Linnenbank wrote: > Jens Axboe wrote: > >So either this is fixed by this: > > > >http://git.kernel.dk/?p=linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=8191ecd1d14c6914c660dfa007154860a7908857 > > > >or it's a different bug. You should post the full oops (including any > >message that came before the oops, like the 'locked up for foo seconds' > >in the urls you reference above) with the Code line at the bottom as > >well so we can see what the registers are used for. > > > >If it's the bug fixed with the above commit, then 2.6.25.x should > >work. Unfortunately I'm unsure of the -stable status of the above > >patch. > > > thanks for your reply. > > I appended five of the bunch of errors to this mail. They all lock the > CPU for 11 seconds (just like the nfsd errors we had in February/April), > so that could be a sign of them being the same bug. > > It seems to be the same problem. We've only seen this behaviour once on > the one machine though. I'll keep a couple of webservers on 2.6.24.2 and > some on 2.6.25.4, just to see what happens. > > Thanks! > > Kind regards, > > Tristan > > Jun 4 15:08:38 web10.c1.internal kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck > for 11s! [apache2:22361]
Yep, that looks like the same 'spinning in splice read' problem, so the 2.6.25 kernel should work fine.
-- Jens Axboe
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