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Date:      Tue, 12 Oct 2010 17:36:54 +0200
From:      Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>
Cc:        fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS freeze/livelock
Message-ID:  <20101012153654.GC2197@garage.freebsd.pl>
In-Reply-To: <4CB1DD0F.6000209@digiware.nl>
References:  <4CB1DD0F.6000209@digiware.nl>

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On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 05:34:39PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> Hi,
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> Just had my FreeBSD freeze on me with what I would think is sort of an=20
> livelock....
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> While I was receiving zfs snapshots on my data pool.
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> Top and systat just kept running,
> but anything getting near a shell (and perhaps disk-io) ended up in:
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> root@zfs.digiware.nl# gpart create -s gpt da6
> load: 0.00  cmd: csh 12393 [zfsvfs->z_teardown_inactive_lock] 26.12r=20
> 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2480k
> load: 0.10  cmd: csh 12393 [zfsvfs->z_teardown_inactive_lock] 96.01r=20
> 0.00u 0.00s 0% 2480k
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> Trying to execute to execute shutdown -r now had no effect what so ever.
> Neither did the three-finger salute.
> (Well at least not in 60 sec I was willing to wait.)
>=20
> Only way out of this situation was hard-reset. And I do have to admit I=
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> like ZFS for the speed it recovers after unexpected reboot.
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> To bad there was no alt-ctrl-backspace escape to debugger compiled in.=20
> I'll do that with the next kernel, just in case.
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> So the only data point I can give is the ^T output above.

Maybe you still be able to provide backtraces for all processes with
'procstat -kk'?

It looks like a deadlock related to 'zfs recv' or maybe unmounting?

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheelsystems.com
pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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