FreeBSD-9.1: machine reboots during snapshot creation, LORs found
Andre Albsmeier
Andre.Albsmeier at siemens.com
Fri May 31 17:27:59 UTC 2013
On Fri, 31-May-2013 at 16:51:03 +0200, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday, May 31, 2013 8:26:11 am Andre Albsmeier wrote:
> > Each day at 5:15 we are generating snapshots on various machines.
> > This used to work perfectly under 7-STABLE for years but since
> > we started to use 9.1-STABLE the machine reboots in about 10%
> > of all cases.
> >
> > After rebooting we find a new snapshot file which is a bit
> > smaller than the good ones and with different permissions
> > It does not succeed a fsck. In this example it is the one
> > whose name is beginning with s3:
> >
> > -r--r----- 1 root operator snapshot 72802894528 29 May 05:15 s2-2013.05.28-03.15.04
> > -r-------- 1 root operator snapshot 72802893824 29 May 05:15 s3-2013.05.29-03.15.03
> > -r--r----- 1 root operator snapshot 72802894528 28 May 14:22 s4-2013.05.23-06.38.44
> > -r--r----- 1 root operator snapshot 72802894528 28 May 14:22 s5-2013.05.24-03.15.03
> > -r--r----- 1 root operator snapshot 72802894528 28 May 14:22 s6-2013.05.25-03.15.03
> >
> > After enabling DIAGNOSTIC, WITNESS and INVARIANTS in the kernel
> > I see the following LORs (mksnap_ffs starts exactly at 5:15):
> >
> > May 29 05:15:00 <kern.crit> palveli kernel: lock order reversal:
> > May 29 05:15:00 <kern.crit> palveli kernel: 1st 0xc2371da8 ufs (ufs) @ /src/src-9/sys/kern/vfs_mount.c:1240
> > May 29 05:15:00 <kern.crit> palveli kernel: 2nd 0xc2371ec4 devfs (devfs) @ /src/src-9/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_vfsops.c:1414
> > May 29 05:15:04 <kern.crit> palveli kernel: lock order reversal:
> > May 29 05:15:04 <kern.crit> palveli kernel: 1st 0xc228471c snaplk (snaplk) @ /src/src-9/sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_vnops.c:976
> > May 29 05:15:04 <kern.crit> palveli kernel: 2nd 0xc22f25e4 ufs (ufs) @ /src/src-9/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_snapshot.c:1626
> >
> > Unfortunatley no corefiles are being generated ;-(.
> >
> > I have checked and even rebuilt the (UFS1) fs in question
> > from scratch. I have also seen this happen on an UFS2 on
> > another machine and on a third one when running "dump -L"
> > on a root fs.
> >
> > Any hints of how to proceed?
>
> Would it be possible to setup a serial console that is logged on this machine
> to see if it is panic'ing but failing to write out a crashdump?
I'll try to arrange that. It'll take a bit since this
box is 200 km away...
Maybe I'll find another one nearby to reproduce it...
-Andre
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