[DRBD-user] XFS issues

sebastian schmitzdorff sebastian.schmitzdorff at ina-germany.de
Wed Apr 13 09:23:55 CEST 2005

Note: "permalinks" may not be as permanent as we would like,
direct links of old sources may well be a few messages off.


On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 18:47 +0200, Philipp Reisner wrote:
> Do you compiled the kernel by yourself, or is it a vendor kernel ?
> 

It is a self compiled vanilla kernel. Preemption, APM, ACPI and the
usual error suspects are not enabled in this kernel.

> When you reproduce the OOPS, does it always happen in recalc_sigpending_tsk ?
> 
I only have one documented trace so far. Maybe I'll be able to reproduce
it this week again.

> Have you already checked if the machine is okay ? Memtest86 etc...

The memory is out of question. The system runs fine when it is primary
and no second node is up. The crashes only happen with a secondary node
involved.

> 
> Basically the call trace seems to be ok, only the
> blk_plug_device line is there a bit strange. But so far so good...
> The other strange thing is that there is no process name!!!
> 
> -> These two facts point to the assumption that the current pointer 
>    was not valid in recalc_sigpending_tsk(). But this is only
>    an educated guess.
>    To know for real I would need the ./kernel/signal.c file 
>    compiled with your settings and compiler but 
>    the "-c" replaced with "-gstabs+ -S".

I'm not sure how to do that.
Just do a `gcc -gstabs+ -S signal.c` ?
> 
> BTW, do you have any strange things enabled ? Maybe kernel-preemption ?
> 

The only thing that might differ from other kernels is the stack size.
"Use 4Kb for kernel stacks instead of 8Kb"
CONFIG_4KSTACKS=y

> PS: Is there anyone on the list who has the same XFS+DRBD crashes ?

I know of at least one person who has the same crashes with xfs and
drbd, also only when syncing with a secondary node. He is currently
running kernel 2.6.11 and drbd 0.7.11
http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2004-December/002380.html

> 
> -philipp
> 
> [...]

Another Question would be: Is there anyone on the LIST where DRBD+XFS
works fine in a production environment?

sebastian





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