Re: XFS / writeback invoking soft lockup.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri Dec 13 2013 - 11:23:14 EST


On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 03:16:39AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 09:48:53PM +1100, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > All I can say is that there doesn't look to be any obvious signs
> > that this is a XFS or writeback problem fom the stack trace, and
> > without more information or a reproducable test case I'm not going
> > to be able to understand the cause.
> >
> > Is the problem reproducable, or is it just a one-off?
>
> If it's reproducable it would be good to enable the xfs_writepage
> tracepoint and get a trace-cmd log of it.

I hit it pretty reliably last night. I'll make a note to look into it
on monday with that enabled.

Dave

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