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Re: [Xen-users] PROBLEM: Kernel BUG with raid5 soft + Xen + DRBD - invalid opcode



Hi guys,

My issue is still remaining with new kernels, at least last revision of 4.10.x branch.

But I found something that can be interesting for investigations, here I attached another .config file for kernel building, with this configuration I'm not able to reproduce the kernel panic, I got no crash at all with exactly the same procedure.

Tested on 4.9.16 kernel and 4.10.13 :
- config_Crash.txt : result in a crash running fio within less than 2 minutes - config_NoCrash.txt : even after hours of fio, rebuilding arrays, etc ... no crash at all, neither no warning or anything in dmesg.

Note : config_NoCrash is coming from another server on which I had setup similar system and which was not crashing. Tested this kernel on my crashing system, and no crash anymore...

I can't believe how a different config can solve a kernel BUG...

If someone has any idea...

Bests,


Le 09/01/2017 à 23:44, Shaohua Li a écrit :
On Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 02:31:15PM +0100, MasterPrenium wrote:
Hello,

Replies below + :
- I don't know if this can help but after the crash, when the system
reboots, the Raid 5 stack is re-synchronizing
[   37.028239] md10: Warning: Device sdc1 is misaligned
[   37.028541] created bitmap (15 pages) for device md10
[   37.030433] md10: bitmap initialized from disk: read 1 pages, set 59 of
29807 bits

- Sometimes the kernel completely crash (lost serial + network connection),
sometimes only got the "BUG" dump, but still have network access (but a
reboot is impossible, need to reset the system).

- You can find blktrace here (while running fio), I hope it's complete since
the end of the file is when the kernel crashed : https://goo.gl/X9jZ50
Looks most are normal full stripe writes.
I'm trying to reproduce, but no success. So
ext4->btrfs->raid5, crash
btrfs->raid5, no crash
right? does subvolume matter? When you create the raid5 array, does adding
'--assume-clean' option change the behavior? I'd like to narrow down the issue.
If you can capture the blktrace to the raid5 array, it would be great to hint
us what kind of IO it is.
Yes Correct.
The subvolume doesn't matter.
-- assume-clean doesn't change the behaviour.
so it's not a resync issue.

Don't forget that the system needs to be running on xen to crash, without
(on native kernel) it doesn't crash (or at least, I was not able to make it
crash).
Regarding your patch, I can't find it. Is it the one sent by Konstantin
Khlebnikov ?
Right.
It doesn't help :(. Maybe the crash is happening a little bit later.
ok, the patch is unlikely helpful, since the IO size isn't very big.

Don't have good idea yet. My best guess so far is virtual machine introduces
extra delay, which might trigger some race conditions which aren't seen in
native.  I'll check if I could find something locally.

Thanks,
Shaohua

Attachment: Config_Crash.txt
Description: Text document

Attachment: Config_NoCrash.txt
Description: Text document

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