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Date:      Mon, 19 Jul 2010 08:48:27 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: deadlock or bad disk ?  RELENG_8
Message-ID:  <201007191248.o6JCmP4N049393@lava.sentex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20100719041149.GA93978@icarus.home.lan>
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At 12:11 AM 7/19/2010, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 08:58:44PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> > I took a look at the RELENG_8 code responsible for printing this
> > message: src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c
> >
> > [...]
> > 1086 static int
> > 1087 swap_pager_getpages(vm_object_t object, vm_page_t *m, int 
> count, int reqpage)
> > 1088 {
> > [...]
>
>There was a change to this piece of code on May 13th.  See commit
>1.312.2.4 below:
>
>http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c
>
>Before I pull in kib@ or alc@ to help determine if what was introduced
>could cause what you're seeing, can you clarify this point?
>
> > FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Jul 13 09:55:48 EDT 2010
> >      mdtancsa at backup3.sentex.ca:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/backup amd64
> > [...]
> > Its never been an issue in the past 2yrs.  The same box was RELENG_7
> > for some time and then in the past 3 months updated to RELENG_8.
>
>Has this system run a previous version of RELENG_8 within the past 3

Here is the recent history of what kernels the box was running

Dec  1 07:49:34 backup3 kernel: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Mon Nov 30 
23:18:16 EST 2009
Dec  1 08:06:17 backup3 kernel: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Mon Nov 30 
23:18:16 EST 2009
Mar  9 14:50:02 backup3 kernel: FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE #1: Tue Mar  9 
12:44:17 EST 2010
Mar  9 14:59:58 backup3 kernel: FreeBSD 7.3-PRERELEASE #1: Tue Mar  9 
12:44:17 EST 2010
Apr 21 10:38:05 backup3 kernel: FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #0: Wed Apr 21 
10:19:12 EDT 2010
May 10 10:44:04 backup3 kernel: FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #2: Mon May 10 
09:30:36 EDT 2010
May 26 10:46:05 backup3 kernel: FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue May 25 
17:18:59 EDT 2010
Jul  2 13:57:32 backup3 kernel: FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #2: Fri Jul  2 
12:07:22 EDT 2010
Jul 13 13:11:43 backup3 kernel: FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Jul 13 
09:55:48 EDT 2010
Jul 18 13:46:15 backup3 kernel: FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #0: Tue Jul 13 
09:55:48 EDT 2010


>months, or are you seeing this issue "as a result of upgrading from
>RELENG_7 to RELENG_8"?


The first time I have seen this was going from July 2 to the 
13th.  However, before drawing any conclusions, this could just be a 
very odd edge case or hardware, or an actual regression.  I think its 
very hard to say at this point as I cant even reproduce it on demand.

         ---Mike


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