ZFS lockup in "zfs" state

[Andrew Hill]

some more info...

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Andrew Hill <lists at thefrog.net> wrote:

> i tend to find that the timeouts occur on one or two disks at once - e.g.
> ad0 and 2 will complain of timeouts, and the system locks up shortly
> thereafter...


after spitting out the usual errors from ad0 and ad2 (in this case) with
TIMEOUTs and subsequent FAILUREs on READ_DMA[48] and WRITE_DMA[48]...

i got the following panic

vm_fault: pager read error, pid 1552 (tlsmgr)
ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA48 timed out LBA=352903900
swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 437, size: 4096
ad2: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA timed out LBA=239717693
panic: ZFS: I/O failure (write on <unknown> off 0: zio 0xffffff001d47c810
[L0 ZIL intent log] b000L/b000P DVA[0]=<0:c807795000:d000> zilog
uncompressed LE contiguous birth=750230 fill=0
cksum=69f76525a84e1816:f6d86fe1d94cd68c:39:8af): error 5
KDB: enter: panic
[thread pid 72 tid 100071 ]
Stopped at      kdb_enter_why+0x3d:     movq    $0,0x39b248(%rip)
db>

generally the lockups don't result in a panic (at least not in the short
term of 5-10 minutes), so i can't be sure that this panic is necessarily
caused by the same problem, but thought it might be worth posting in case it
gives an indication of the location/cause of the deadlock

unfortunately i couldn't get a backtrace or core dump for 'political'
reasons (the system was required for use by others) but i'll see if i can
get a panic happening after-hours to get some more info...