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Message-ID: <64bb37e0712301335k3ae8c0car1fa9b34034f9df0e@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:35:00 +0100
From:	"Torsten Kaiser" <just.for.lkml@...glemail.com>
To:	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Neil Brown" <neilb@...e.de>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "Tom Tucker" <tom@...ngridcomputing.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc6-mm1

On Dec 30, 2007 10:24 PM, J. Bruce Fields <bfields@...ldses.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 03:07:46PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:53:49 +0100 "Torsten Kaiser" <just.for.lkml@...glemail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Dec 23, 2007 5:27 PM, Torsten Kaiser <just.for.lkml@...glemail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Dec 23, 2007 8:30 AM, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.24-rc6/2.6.24-rc6-mm1/
> > > > I have finally given up on using 2.6.24-rc3-mm2 with slub_debug=FZP to
> > > > get more information out of the random crashes I had seen with that
> > > > version. (Did not crash once with slub_debug, so no new information on
> > > > what the cause was)
> > >
> > > Murphy: Just after sending that mail the system crashed two times with
> > > slub_debug=FZP, but did not show any new informations.
> > > No debug output from slub, only this stacktrace: (Its the same I
> > > already reported in the 2.6.24-rc3-mm2 thread)
> > >
[snip]
> > > [ 7620.708561] Pid: 5698, comm: nfsv4-svc Not tainted 2.6.24-rc3-mm2 #2
[snip]
> >
> > That looks like a sunrpc bug.  git-nfsd has bene mucking around in there a
> > bit.
>
> Can you still reproduce this?  Tom thought there was a chance the
> following could fix it.

Please see also http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/29/76

Just wanted to say that slub_debug did not help to get more infos.

I will try to reproduce this with rc3-mm2 and the below patch tomorrow.
Without slub_debug this seemed to trigger rather reliable when trying
to update/upgrade packages on my system.

> From:   Tom Tucker <tom@...ngridcomputing.com>
> Date:   Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:07:17 -0600
>
> Bruce/Aime:
>
> Here is what I believe to be the fix for the crashes/svc_xprt BUG_ON
> that people are seeing. It would be great if those who have seen this
> problem could apply this patch and see if it resolves their problem.
>
> The common code calls svc_xprt_received on behalf of the transport.
> Since the provider was calling it as well, this resulted in clearing the
> busy bit/resetting xpt_pool when the BUSY bit wasn't held.
>
> diff --git a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
> index 4628881..4d39db1 100644
> --- a/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
> +++ b/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c
> @@ -1272,7 +1272,6 @@ static struct svc_xprt *svc_create_socket(struct svc_serv *serv,
>
>         if ((svsk = svc_setup_socket(serv, sock, &error, flags)) != NULL) {
>                 svc_xprt_set_local(&svsk->sk_xprt, newsin, newlen);
> -               svc_xprt_received(&svsk->sk_xprt);
>                 return (struct svc_xprt *)svsk;
>         }

I will send a mail, when I'm done with testing this...

Thanks for the patch.

Torsten
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