From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 27 08:24:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0577C16A420 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:24:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: from smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com (smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com [68.142.225.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EC8743D45 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:24:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikej@rogers.com) Received: (qmail 94864 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2006 08:24:13 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=rogers.com; h=Received:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=XvbOFsQ8zjkIpqZY/fd46yd+U8evmpuIB+sz3LayznFQ/x0yeVUjf3+Rm0PxGKOwK0lbc5bLEscXiU/W4QO82tBXN0htiIES8MxDNb/ibX4XNtH6l4Q4g9PwhZWJzlLOxsTbvZKBP1TjuOXd0+v1nuHO9QykX5Dst/uy2TrECo8= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?70.30.133.184?) (mikej@rogers.com@70.30.133.184 with plain) by smtp107.rog.mail.re2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 27 Jan 2006 08:24:13 -0000 Message-ID: <43D9D8B0.1050003@rogers.com> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 03:24:16 -0500 From: Mike Jakubik User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Atanas References: <200601202003.30336.nike_d@cytexbg.com> <43D79F09.7090505@cytexbg.com> <200601261040.49015.nike_d@cytexbg.com> <200601261707.56664.nike_d@cytexbg.com> <20060126161728.GA18234@xor.obsecurity.org> <43D95D2C.8010101@rogers.com> <20060126234422.GA26532@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060126234609.GA26648@xor.obsecurity.org> <43D9D649.9030003@asd.aplus.net> In-Reply-To: <43D9D649.9030003@asd.aplus.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: diskio / filesystem related deadlock on SMP 6.0-STABLE machine. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:24:15 -0000 Atanas wrote: > > Kris Kennaway said the following on 1/26/2006 3:46 PM: >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 06:44:22PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: >>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 06:37:16PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote: >>>> Kris Kennaway wrote: >>>>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 05:07:56PM +0200, Niki Denev wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On Thursday 26 January 2006 10:40, Niki Denev wrote: >>>>>> [...] >>>>>> >>>>>> After i disabled option QUOTA in both my default kernel config >>>>>> and the one i compiled with the debugging options i was unable >>>>>> to reproduce the deadlock again. (i hope it stays that way :) ) >>>>>> This, together with the report in my previous post probably point >>>>>> that the problem is in the QUOTA support. >>>>>> >>>>> Actually, I think this is known. >>>>> >>>>> Kris >>>>> >>>> Well thats good to know, i was planning on upgrading a production >>>> box from 5 to 6, its SMP and uses QUOTA. How did 6 get released >>>> when QUOTA was known to cause deadlocks? >> >> FYI, you can probably work around this by setting debug.mpsafevfs=0. >> Of course, you'll lose the filesystem performance benefits. >> >> Kris > > I'd like to confirm that setting debug.mpsafevfs=0 (along with > debug.mpsafevm=0 and debug.mpsafenet=0) doesn't help either. > > I ran into the same problem about a month ago on 2 production boxes > running 6-STABLE (SMP with QUOTA enabled) and the only way I found to > stop them crashing was switching back to 5.4. > > I hope this will get fixed in 6.1. So do I! I'm quite surprised to hear of such a huge bug this late. I had plans in place to upgrade a few clients to 6-STABLE but this information changes a few of them. Hopefully someone knowledgeable enough will look in to this, unfortunately i can't test any code changes...