Re: XFS shutting down due to IO timeout on SATA disk (pata_via forCX700)

From: Bruno PrÃmont
Date: Mon Sep 15 2008 - 13:11:55 EST

Hello,

On Mon, 15 September 2008 Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> (please try to wrap paragraphs for 80 column)
I try not to break lines from dmesg, lspci and and other commands'
(formatted) output as those tend to get pretty hard to read when
line-wrapped.
Sorry if I wrapped my text after 80 columns.

> > Kernel error output related to XFS shutdown:
> > [ 9352.420180] ata1.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0
> > action 0x6 frozen [ 9352.420247] ata1.00: cmd
> > ea/00:00:00:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 [ 9352.420261]
> > res 40/00:01:00:4f:c2/00:00:00:00:00/00 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
>
> Timeout on FLUSH_EXT. That's a bad sign. Patch to retry FLUSH is
> pending but at any rate FLUSH failure is often accompanied by loss of
> data and XFS is doing the right thing of giving up on it.
>
> Can you please post the result of "smartctl -a /dev/sda"?
I checked it though there were no errors logged nor any other information
that would catch attention. The disk/machine is pretty unused (a year old
but low uptime, a few hours those days with uptime)

Anyhow smaprtctl's output is blow.

Bruno



smartctl version 5.38 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-8 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Device Model: FUJITSU MHY2250BH
Serial Number: K407T7A25THF
Firmware Version: 0000000B
User Capacity: 250,059,350,016 bytes
Device is: Not in smartctl database [for details use: -P showall]
ATA Version is: 8
ATA Standard is: ATA-8-ACS revision 3f
Local Time is: Mon Sep 15 18:52:53 2008 CEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status: (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status: ( 0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: (1009) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities: (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability: (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 143) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: ( 2) minutes.
SCT capabilities: (0x003d) SCT Status supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 046 Pre-fail Always - 189618
2 Throughput_Performance 0x0005 100 100 030 Pre-fail Offline - 53870592
3 Spin_Up_Time 0x0003 100 100 025 Pre-fail Always - 1
4 Start_Stop_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 168
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct 0x0033 100 100 024 Pre-fail Always - 8589934592000
7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 047 Pre-fail Always - 679
8 Seek_Time_Performance 0x0005 100 100 019 Pre-fail Offline - 0
9 Power_On_Hours 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 230
10 Spin_Retry_Count 0x0013 100 100 020 Pre-fail Always - 0
12 Power_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 149
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 18
193 Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 6674
194 Temperature_Celsius 0x0022 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 27 (Lifetime Min/Max 22/36)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 606
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 441778176
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0010 100 100 000 Old_age Offline - 0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count 0x003e 200 253 000 Old_age Always - 0
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 100 060 Pre-fail Always - 10312
203 Run_Out_Cancel 0x0002 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 3728055731610
240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x003e 200 200 000 Old_age Always - 0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]


SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN MIN_LBA MAX_LBA CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
1 0 0 Not_testing
2 0 0 Not_testing
3 0 0 Not_testing
4 0 0 Not_testing
5 0 0 Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay.

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