lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2014]   [May]   [8]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: blk-mq: WARN at block/blk-mq.c:585 __blk_mq_run_hw_queue
On 05/07/2014 11:55 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 05/07/2014 09:53 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> On 05/07/2014 11:45 AM, Jens Axboe wrote:
>>> On 05/07/2014 09:37 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> While fuzzing with trinity inside a KVM tools guest running the latest -next
>>>> kernel I've stumbled on the following spew:
>>>>
>>>> [ 986.962569] WARNING: CPU: 41 PID: 41607 at block/blk-mq.c:585 __blk_mq_run_hw_queue+0x90/0x500()
>>>
>>> I'm going to need more info than this. What were you running? How as kvm
>>> invoked (nr cpus)?
>>
>> Sure!
>>
>> It's running in a KVM tools guest (not qemu), with the following options:
>>
>> '--rng --balloon -m 28000 -c 48 -p "numa=fake=32 init=/virt/init zcache ftrace_dump_on_oops debugpat kvm.mmu_audit=1 slub_debug=FZPU rcutorture.rcutorture_runnable=0 loop.max_loop=64 zram.num_devices=4 rcutorture.nreaders=8 oops=panic nr_hugepages=1000 numa_balancing=enable'.
>>
>> So basically 48 vcpus (the host has 128 physical ones), and ~28G of RAM.
>>
>> I've been running trinity as a fuzzer, which doesn't handle logging too well,
>> so I can't reproduce it's actions easily.
>>
>> There was an additional stress of hotplugging CPUs and memory during this recent
>> fuzzing run, so it's fair to suspect that this happened as a result of that.
>
> Aha!
>
>> Anything else that might be helpful?
>
> No, not too surprising given the info that cpu hotplug was being
> stressed at the same time. blk-mq doesn't quiesce when this happens, so
> it's very unlikely that there are races between updating the cpu masks
> and flushing out the previously queued work.

So this warning is something you'd expect when CPUs go up/down?


Thanks,
Sasha



\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2014-05-09 06:01    [W:0.111 / U:0.424 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site