Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:08:56 +0200 From: Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> To: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> Cc: fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS freeze/livelock Message-ID: <98AF4752-7881-4C50-8A59-243F1AD55318@sarenet.es> In-Reply-To: <4CB1DD0F.6000209@digiware.nl> References: <4CB1DD0F.6000209@digiware.nl>
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On Oct 10, 2010, at 5:34 PM, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > Hi, > > Just had my FreeBSD freeze on me with what I would think is sort of an livelock.... > > While I was receiving zfs snapshots on my data pool. > > Top and systat just kept running, > but anything getting near a shell (and perhaps disk-io) ended up in: > > root@zfs.digiware.nl# gpart create -s gpt da6 > load: 0.00 cmd: csh 12393 [zfsvfs->z_teardown_inactive_lock] 26.12r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2480k > load: 0.10 cmd: csh 12393 [zfsvfs->z_teardown_inactive_lock] 96.01r 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2480k > > Trying to execute to execute shutdown -r now had no effect what so ever. > Neither did the three-finger salute. > (Well at least not in 60 sec I was willing to wait.) > > Only way out of this situation was hard-reset. And I do have to admit I like ZFS for the speed it recovers after unexpected reboot. > > To bad there was no alt-ctrl-backspace escape to debugger compiled in. I'll do that with the next kernel, just in case. There is an (as far as I know) unsolved deadlock situation when receiving a snapshot while you read the target dataset. I found it in a redundant server configuration. I replicate some datasets periodically doing an incremental send-receive. It works perfectly but it can deadlock if I have a process reading the destination dataset on the secondary server. And those things can happen if you have, for example, one of the nightly periodic tasks running. Were you doing a siimilar thing? Or are you sure there was no reading activity on the destination dataset? Borja.
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