On Nov 25, 2013, at 8:20 AM, Brassow Jonathan wrote: > > On Nov 24, 2013, at 6:03 PM, NeilBrown wrote: > >> On Sun, 24 Nov 2013 17:30:43 -0600 Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >> >>> When commit 773ca82 was made in v3.12-rc1, it caused RAID4/5/6 devices >>> that were created via device-mapper (dm-raid.c) to hang on creation. >>> This is not necessarily the fault of that commit, but perhaps the way >>> dm-raid.c was setting-up and activating devices. >>> >>> Device-mapper allows I/O and memory allocations in the constructor >>> (i.e. raid_ctr()), but nominal and recovery I/O should not be allowed >>> until a 'resume' is issued (i.e. raid_resume()). It has been problematic >>> (at least in the past) to call mddev_resume before mddev_suspend was >>> called, but this is how DM behaves - CTR then resume. To solve the >>> problem, raid_ctr() was setting up the structures, calling md_run(), and >>> then also calling mddev_suspend(). The stage was then set for raid_resume() >>> to call mddev_resume(). >>> >>> Commit 773ca82 caused a change in behavior during raid5.c:run(). >>> 'setup_conf->grow_stripes->grow_one_stripe' is called which creates the >>> stripe cache and increments 'active_stripes'. >>> 'grow_one_stripe->release_stripe' doesn't actually decrement 'active_stripes' >>> anymore. The side effect of this is that when raid_ctr calls mddev_suspend, >>> it waits for 'active_stripes' to reduce to 0 - which never happens. >> >> Hi Jon, >> this sounds like the same bug that is fixed by >> >> commit ad4068de49862b083ac2a15bc50689bb30ce3e44 >> Author: majianpeng <majianpeng@xxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Thu Nov 14 15:16:15 2013 +1100 >> >> raid5: Use slow_path to release stripe when mddev->thread is null >> >> which is already en-route to 3.12.x. Could you check if it fixes the bug for >> you? > > Sure, I'll check. Just reading the subject of the patch, I have high hopes. The slow path decrements 'active_stripes', which was causing the above problem... I'll make sure though. Yes, this patch fixes the issue in 3.12-rc1+. However, there is still a problem I'm searching for that was introduced in commit 566c09c (at least that's what I get when bisecting). The problem only shows up when I have taken a snapshot of a RAID5 device and only if I have cycled the device before adding the snapshot: 1> lvcreate --type raid5 -i 3 -L 20M -n lv vg 2> lvchange -an vg/lv 3> lvchange -ay vg/lv 4> lvcreate -s vg/lv -L 50M -n snap 5> lvchange -an vg/lv 6> lvchange -ay vg/lv -- BUG: line 292 of raid5.c The current bug triggers on the 'BUG_ON(atomic_read(&conf->active_stripes)==0)' in do_release_stripe(). I'm not sure why yet. brassow -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
