Re: [Xen-users] Pb with 3ware 9550SX-4LP / high IO activities

[Michael Kress <kress@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I tried the "in-kernel" driver, i.e. I modified the config to include
3w-9xxx in the kernel 2.6.16, not as a module. I must admit that the
mkfs went through this time, but as soon as I do some additional 'dd' or
'cp' it doesn't take me longer than 10 sec to receive this crash (sorry,
no more information than the screen, because the machine crashes and
because it doesn't write logs for obvious reasons).
Have you got some idea?
Thanks - Michael

The dump I received:
[<c9142ela>] __do_IRQ+BxBa/9X119
[<c916bb29>] al1oc_page_buffers+9x69/9xc9
[<c9196b7a>] do_IRQ+9xla/9x39
[<c923d992>] evtchn_do_upcall+9x92/9x119
[<c9195148>] hypervisor_callback+9x2c/9x34
[<c923d8fa>] force_evtchn_callback+9xa/9x19
[<c01446cf>] add_to_page_cache+9xef/9x199
[<c9146bad>] generic_file_buffered_write+9x16d/9x6c9
[<c92c9191>] twa_post_command_packet+8x41/9x178
[<c9186d59>] file_update_time+9x59/9xd9
[<c914749d>] __generic_file_aio_write_nolock+9x39d/9x589
[<c91d279e>] b1k_run_queue+9x4e/9x79
[<c91e131f>] kobject_put+9xlf/9x39
[<c91e12f9>] kobject_release+9x9/9x19
[<c02862e5>] scsi_end_request+9xe5/9x119
[<c91476d9>] generic_file_aio_write_nolock+9x59/9xd9
[<c91478c3>] generic_f1le_write_nolock+9xa3/9xd9
[<c9137179>] autoremove_wake_function+9x9/9x69
[<c9198e61>] monotonic_clock+9x51/9xa9
[<c93742b4>] schedule+9x3f4/9x779
[<c9172f18>] blkdev file_write+9x38/9x49
[<c01695e6>] vfs_write+9x1c6/9x1d9
[<c91696c1>] sys_write+9x51/9x89
[<c0104f85>] syscall_cal1+9x7/9xb


Michael Kress wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having problems with a 3ware 9550SX-4LP during high IO activities:
> the kernel produces a dump and halts the machine. This only shows up
> using a xen kernel.
>
> To be more precise:
> When I activate the write cache on the controller and then produce high
> IO traffic in Xen0 there's a kernel dump and the system halts
> completely. I even can't go up in the console's history (with pg-up).
> Sorry, but there's also no trace in the syslog file I could give you,
> just the screen (see below).
> For producing "high IO traffic" it's just enough to do a
> mkfs.ext3 /dev/VolGroup00/lvx01
> on a logical volume of 100GB size.
> I haven't got any guests runing yet.
> The mkfs.ext3 goes up to about 530 of 800 inode tables and the system
> halts. If I do a dd in another process, the system crashes even earlier.
>
> The dump which I can gather from the screen:
> [<d105Z395>] scsi_device_unbusy+0x45z0x80 [scsi_mod]
> [<d10534fa>] scsi_softirq_done+0xaa/0x120 [scsi_mod]
> [<c01d4a9b>] blk_done_softirq+0x9b/BxcB
> [<c012Sa73>] __do_softirq+0x93i8x130
> [<c0125b95>] do_softirq+8x85/0xa0
> [<c0106b7f>] do_IRQ+0x1fi8x30
> [<c023dbb2>] evtchn_do_upcal1+0x92/0x110
> [<c8185148>] hypervisor_callback+0x2ci8x34
> [<c01e5594>] __copy_from_user_II+8x34/0x50
> [<c0146c6b>] yeneric_file_buffered_write+0x22b/0x6c0
> [<d1121814>] __ext3_journal_stop+8x24/0x50 [ext3]
> [<c014740d>] __yeneric_file_aio_write_nolock+0x30di8x580
> [<c023dbb2>] evtchn_do_upcal1+0x92/0x110
> [<c0152fe6>] zap_pte_ranye+8x286/0x3f0
> [<c0147978>] yeneric_file_aio_write+0x88i8x120
> [<d1116814>] ext3_file_write+0x44i8xc5 [ext3]
> [<c01693ba>] do_sync_write+0xcai8x130
> [<c0153c57>] zeromap_pte_ranye+8x147/0x1f0
> [<c0137170>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x60
> [<c021c8a4>] read zero+0x1d4i8x230
> [<c01a04d9>] dnotify_parent+8x39/0xa0
> [<c01695e6>] vfs_write+0x1c6/0x1d0
> [<c01696c1>] sys_write+8xS L0x80
> [<c0104f85>] suscall_ca11+0x7/Bxb
>
>
> Can you help me with that problem? I'd like to activate the cache
> without having these crashes as writing is much more fast!
> The controller setting "Queuing" doesn't spoil the effect, i.e.
> caching: off, queuing: on, crash: no
> caching: off, queuing: off, crash: no
> caching: on, queuing: off or on, crash: yes
>
> I can use a bare CentOS 4.4 with all updates (currently with kernel
> 2.6.9) but without xen and the system works flawlessly, even with
> caching on.
>
> My setup:
> 3ware 9550SX-4LP + BBU
> 4x250GB Seagate ST3250820AS SATAII with NCQ
> Board: Supermicro X6DH8-G2+
> 2 x Intel xeon 3.6GHz
> 4GB RAM
> Xen0: CentOS4.4 with Xen 3.0.2 and a self-compiled-kernel 2.6.16 (the
> one that "came" along with xen's setup routine).
>
> Thank you
> Regards
>
> Michael
>
>   


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Michael Kress, kress@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.michael-kress.de / http://kress.net
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