panic: spin lock held too long (RELENG_8 from today)

Attilio Rao attilio at freebsd.org
Thu Aug 18 00:35:39 UTC 2011


2011/8/18 Hiroki Sato <hrs at freebsd.org>:
> Hiroki Sato <hrs at freebsd.org> wrote
>  in <20110818.043332.27079545013461535.hrs at allbsd.org>:
>
> hr> Attilio Rao <attilio at freebsd.org> wrote
> hr>   in <CAJ-FndCDOW0_B2MV0LZEo-tpEa9+7oAnJ7iHvKQsM4j4B0DLqg at mail.gmail.com>:
> hr>
> hr> at> 2011/8/17 Hiroki Sato <hrs at freebsd.org>:
> hr> at> > Hi,
> hr> at> >
> hr> at> > Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote
> hr> at> >  in <4E15A08C.6090407 at sentex.net>:
> hr> at> >
> hr> at> > mi> On 7/7/2011 7:32 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> hr> at> > mi> > On 7/7/2011 4:20 AM, Kostik Belousov wrote:
> hr> at> > mi> >>
> hr> at> > mi> >> BTW, we had a similar panic, "spinlock held too long", the spinlock
> hr> at> > mi> >> is the sched lock N, on busy 8-core box recently upgraded to the
> hr> at> > mi> >> stable/8. Unfortunately, machine hung dumping core, so the stack trace
> hr> at> > mi> >> for the owner thread was not available.
> hr> at> > mi> >>
> hr> at> > mi> >> I was unable to make any conclusion from the data that was present.
> hr> at> > mi> >> If the situation is reproducable, you coulld try to revert r221937. This
> hr> at> > mi> >> is pure speculation, though.
> hr> at> > mi> >
> hr> at> > mi> > Another crash just now after 5hrs uptime. I will try and revert r221937
> hr> at> > mi> > unless there is any extra debugging you want me to add to the kernel
> hr> at> > mi> > instead  ?
> hr> at> >
> hr> at> >  I am also suffering from a reproducible panic on an 8-STABLE box, an
> hr> at> >  NFS server with heavy I/O load.  I could not get a kernel dump
> hr> at> >  because this panic locked up the machine just after it occurred, but
> hr> at> >  according to the stack trace it was the same as posted one.
> hr> at> >  Switching to an 8.2R kernel can prevent this panic.
> hr> at> >
> hr> at> >  Any progress on the investigation?
> hr> at>
> hr> at> Hiroki,
> hr> at> how easilly can you reproduce it?
> hr>
> hr>  It takes 5-10 hours.  I installed another kernel for debugging just
> hr>  now, so I think I will be able to collect more detail information in
> hr>  a couple of days.
> hr>
> hr> at> It would be important to have a DDB textdump with these informations:
> hr> at> - bt
> hr> at> - ps
> hr> at> - show allpcpu
> hr> at> - alltrace
> hr> at>
> hr> at> Alternatively, a coredump which has the stop cpu patch which Andryi can provide.
> hr>
> hr>  Okay, I will post them once I can get another panic.  Thanks!
>
>  I got the panic with a crash dump this time.  The result of bt, ps,
>  allpcpu, and traces can be found at the following URL:
>
>  http://people.allbsd.org/~hrs/FreeBSD/pool-panic_20110818-1.txt

I'm not sure I understand it, is also a corefile available?
If yes, where I could get it? (with the relevant sources and kernel.debug).

Thanks,
Attilio


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