Re: [PATCH] livelock in elevator scheduling

From: Jens Axboe (axboe@suse.de)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 18:01:08 EST

On Mon, Dec 04 2000, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> I'm going to take a closer look at the scsi_back_merge_fn.
> This may have more to due with our/Chait's kiobuf modifications than
> anything else.
>
>
>
> XFS (dev: 8/20) mounting with KIOBUFIO
> Start mounting filesystem: sd(8,20)
> Ending clean XFS mount for filesystem: sd(8,20)
> kmem_alloc doing a vmalloc 262144 size & PAGE_SIZE 0 rval=0xe0a10000
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> 00000008
> printing eip:
> c019f8b5
> *pde = 00000000
>
> Entering kdb (current=0xc1910000, pid 5) on processor 1 Panic: Oops
> due to panic @ 0xc019f8b5
> eax = 0x00000002 ebx = 0x00000001 ecx = 0x00081478 edx = 0x00000000
> esi = 0xc1957da0 edi = 0xc1923ac8 esp = 0xc1911e94 eip = 0xc019f8b5
> ebp = 0xc1911e9c xss = 0x00000018 xcs = 0x00000010 eflags = 0x00010046
> xds = 0x00000018 xes = 0x00000018 origeax = 0xffffffff &regs = 0xc1911e60
> [1]kdb> bt
> EBP EIP Function(args)
> 0xc1911e9c 0x00000000c019f8b5 scsi_back_merge_fn_c+0x15 (0xc1923a98,
> 0xc1957da0, 0xcfb05780, 0x80)
> kernel .text 0xc0100000 0xc019f8a0

Ah, I see what it is now. The elevator is attempting to merge a buffer
head into a kio based request, poof. The attached diff should take
care of that in your tree. 

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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
* SuSE Labs
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