On Sat, Mar 02 2019 at 6:34pm -0500, Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So I have been seeing an issue with an intermittent boot hang on my > x86 KVM VM with the latest linux-next and have bisected it down to the > following commit: > 1efa3bb79d3de8ca1b7f6770313a1fc0bebe25c7 is the first bad commit > commit 1efa3bb79d3de8ca1b7f6770313a1fc0bebe25c7 > Author: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri Feb 22 11:23:01 2019 -0500 > > dm: must allocate dm_noclone for stacked noclone devices > > Otherwise various lvm2 testsuite tests fail because the lower layers of > the stacked noclone device aren't updated to allocate a new 'struct > dm_clone' that reflects the upper layer bio that was issued to it. > > Fixes: 97a89458020b38 ("dm: improve noclone bio support") > Reported-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Mike Snitzer <snitzer@xxxxxxxxxx> > > What I am seeing is in about 3 out of 4 boots the startup just hangs > at the filesystem check stage with the following message: > [ OK ] Reached target Local File Systems (Pre). > Starting File System Check on /dev/…127-ad57-426f-bb45-363950544c0c... > [ **] (1 of 2) A start job is running for…n on device 252:2 (19s / no limit) > > I did some googling and it looks like a similar issue has been > reported for s390. Based on the request for data there I have the > following info: > [root@localhost ~]# dmsetup ls --tree > fedora-swap (253:1) > └─ (252:2) > fedora-root (253:0) > └─ (252:2) > > [root@localhost ~]# dmsetup table > fedora-swap: 0 4194304 linear 252:2 2048 > fedora-root: 0 31457280 linear 252:2 4196352 Thanks, which version of Fedora are you running? Your case is more straightforward in that you're clearly using bio-based DM linear (which was updated to leverage "noclone" support); whereas the s390 case is using request-based DM which isn't impacted by the commit in question at all. I'll attempt to reproduce first thing Monday. Mike -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel