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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:54:06 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Jason Harmening <jason.harmening@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [6.1-PRERELEASE/amd64] Kernel panic during heavy UFS traffic
Message-ID:  <20060316195406.GA30669@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <2d1264630603161045t31774a33h9cec88c4b7d6d13d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2d1264630603161045t31774a33h9cec88c4b7d6d13d@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 12:45:07PM -0600, Jason Harmening wrote:
> Last night I ran into a series of kernel panics that seemed to be related=
 to
> heavy UFS traffic.  I ran into two consecutive panics when trying to moun=
t a
> UFS-formatted DVD-RAM as a regular user (though not when I mounted it as
> root).  The system seemed to actually succeed in mounting the disk, as it
> was marked dirty after the ensuing panic.  Upon rebooting after the second
> panic, I saw another two consecutive panics which happened whenever I tri=
ed
> to do something fairly disk-intensive (e.g. starting the X server + KDE)
> while the bgfsck was still running from the last panic.  Ultimately I
> rebooted in single-user mode, ran fsck manually, and have experienced no
> further panics.  I suspect these panics may be related to UFS deadlocks, =
as
> in all cases the application that was attempting disk access hung for
> several seconds before the panic, followed by a few seconds of total syst=
em
> hang, followed by the automatic reboot.
>=20
> I'm running 6.1-PRELEASE/amd64 from 12 March on an Athlon 64 x2 (SMP) with
> SCHED_ULE+PREEMPTION--dangerous combination I know, but it's been rock so=
lid
> for months until now.  If anyone is interested, I'll try to reproduce this
> panic with a dump/backtrace.  It may be one of the UFS deadlock issues
> that's already under investigation for 6.1-RELEASE.

Yeah, we need a trace.

Kris

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