Re: Failing XFS filesystem underlying Ceph OSDs

[Alex Gorbachev <ag@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Dave,

On Sun, Jul 5, 2015 at 7:24 PM, Dave Chinner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[ Please turn off line wrap when pasting kernel traces ]

Noted, sorry, I thought wrap was off, but Google must have it on by default.

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On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 12:25:47AM -0400, Alex Gorbachev wrote:
> > > sysctl vm.swappiness=20 (can probably be 1 as per article)
> > >
> > > sysctl vm.min_free_kbytes=262144
> >
[...]
>
> We have experienced the problem in various guises with kernels 3.14, 3.19,
> 4.1-rc2 and now 4.1, so it's not new to us, just different error stack.
> Below are some other stack dumps of what manifested as the same error.
>
>Â [<ffffffff817cf4b9>] schedule+0x29/0x70
>Â [<ffffffffc07caee7>] _xfs_log_force+0x187/0x280 [xfs]
>Â [<ffffffff810a4150>] ? try_to_wake_up+0x2a0/0x2a0
>Â [<ffffffffc07cb019>] xfs_log_force+0x39/0xc0 [xfs]
>Â [<ffffffffc07d6542>] xfsaild_push+0x552/0x5a0 [xfs]
>Â [<ffffffff817d2264>] ? schedule_timeout+0x124/0x210
>Â [<ffffffffc07d662f>] xfsaild+0x9f/0x140 [xfs]
>Â [<ffffffffc07d6590>] ? xfsaild_push+0x5a0/0x5a0 [xfs]
>Â [<ffffffff81095e29>] kthread+0xc9/0xe0
>Â [<ffffffff81095d60>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0x90/0x90
>Â [<ffffffff817d3718>] ret_from_fork+0x58/0x90
>Â [<ffffffff81095d60>] ? flush_kthread_worker+0x90/0x90
>Â INFO: task xfsaild/sdg1:2606 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
>Â Â Â Â Not tainted 3.19.4-031904-generic #201504131440
>Â "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.

That's indicative of IO completion problems, but not a crash.

> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at     Â(null)
>Â IP: [<ffffffffc04be80f>] xfs_count_page_state+0x3f/0x70 [xfs]
....
>Â Â[<ffffffffc04be880>] xfs_vm_releasepage+0x40/0x120 [xfs]
>Â Â[<ffffffff8118a7d2>] try_to_release_page+0x32/0x50
>Â Â[<ffffffff8119fe6d>] shrink_page_list+0x69d/0x720
>Â Â[<ffffffff811a058d>] shrink_inactive_list+0x1dd/0x5d0
....

Again, this is indicative of a page cache issue: a page without
buffers has been passed to xfs_vm_releasepage(), which implies the
page flags are not correct. i.e PAGE_FLAGS_PRIVATE is set but
page->private is null...

Again, this is unlikely to be an XFS issue.

Sorry for my ignorance, but would this likely come from Ceph code or a hardware issue of some kind, such as a disk drive? I have reached out to RedHat and Ceph community on that as well.

Thank you,

Alex

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> Do you think we need to look at RAM handling by this Supermicro machine
> type?

Not sure what you mean by that. Problems like this can be caused by
bad hardware, but it's unusual for a machine using ECC memory to
have undetected RAM problems...

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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