linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.32.3 x86_64 - XFS hangs, all I/O to D-state bug (again)

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Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:02:29 +1100
From:	Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@...idpixels.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernl.org,
	xfs@....sgi.com, Alan Piszcz <ap@...arrain.com>
Subject: Re: 2.6.32.3 x86_64 - XFS hangs, all I/O to D-state bug (again)

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 09:51:23AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Can you check if this still happens with the patch below?
> 
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c	2010-02-11 15:47:49.677253958 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c	2010-02-11 15:48:03.630005040 +0100
> @@ -1158,8 +1158,7 @@ _xfs_buf_ioapply(
>  		bp->b_flags &= ~_XBF_RUN_QUEUES;
>  		rw = (bp->b_flags & XBF_WRITE) ? WRITE_META : READ_META;
>  	} else {
> -		rw = (bp->b_flags & XBF_WRITE) ? WRITE :
> -		     (bp->b_flags & XBF_READ_AHEAD) ? READA : READ;
> +		rw = (bp->b_flags & XBF_WRITE) ? WRITE : READ;
>  	}

We don't ever issue readahead on the AGF buffers, so I'm not sure
this will fix the hang. More often than not a hang like this
is caused by a write IO completion not occurring....

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@...morbit.com
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