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[Xen-devel] i/o scheduler deadlocks with loopback devices

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Subject: [Xen-devel] i/o scheduler deadlocks with loopback devices
From: Nathan Gamber <ngamber@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:52:45 -0400
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 Hello all,

I'm able to consistently reproduce lockups in my domU with heavy I/O with the following error:

36841.420662] INFO: task rsyslogd:15014
blocked for more than 120 seconds. [36841.420843] "echo 0>
/proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.

The task varies between any of the tasks that might be active (kjournald, loop0, etc.)

My setup is:
Xen dom0  version 3.4.2.
domU: Ubuntu 10.04, 2.6.36-rc6 based on Stefano Stabellini's v2.6.36-rc6-urgent-fixes tree.
Paravirtual disks and network interfaces.
Root filesystem on /dev/xvda3, formatted ext3, mounted with default options.
Both dom0 and domU are using the CFQ i/o scheduler.

The xvbd is based on LVM, on top of a local SATA RAID array.


To produce this, I can do one of the following:

Set up domU as a primary drbd node, with my drbd volume on top of a local loopback device, and then rsync many files to the volume, delete them, and repeat until the crash.

Mount a linux iso via loopback on a /mnt/test, rsync /mnt/test/ to another directory on xvda3, delete the files, and then repeat until the crash.

This is very similar to the following situation:

http://www.amailbox.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/9/1/4614107

Jeremy Fitzhardinge replied to that thread, indicating that his "xen: use percpu interrupts for IPIs and VIRQs" and "xen: handle events as edge-triggered" patches should fix the issue. These were introduced into 2.6.36-rc3, I believe, and the issue persists. Disabling irqbalanced in dom0, as he suggested as a workaround, has no effect. I've also tried changing the scheduler, and reducing the number of vcpus from 4 to 1, which also had no effect.

Regards,

Nathan Gamber

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