On Tue 19-02-19 14:17:09, Meelis Roos wrote: > > > > > The result of the bisection is > > > > > [88dbcbb3a4847f5e6dfeae952d3105497700c128] blkdev: avoid migration stalls for blkdev pages > > > > > > > > > > Is that result relevant for the problem or should I continue bisecting between 4.20.0 and the so far first bad commit? > > > > > > > > Can you try reverting the commit and see if it makes the problem go away? > > > > > > Tried reverting it on top of 5.0.0-rc6-00153-g5ded5871030e and it seems > > > to make the kernel work - emerge --sync succeeded. > There is more to it. > > After running 5.0.0-rc6-00153-g5ded5871030e-dirty (with the revert of > that patch) successfully for Gentoo update, I upgraded the kernel to > 5.0.0-rc7-00011-gb5372fe5dc84-dirty (todays git + revert of this patch) > and it broke on rsync again: > > RepoStorageException: command exited with status -6: rsync -a --link-dest /usr/portage --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/lost+found --exclude=/packages --exclude /.tmp-unverified-download-quarantine /usr/portage/ /usr/portage/.tmp-unverified-download-quarantine/ > > Nothing in dmesg. > > This means the real root reason is somewhere deeper and reverting this > commit just made it less likely to happen. Thanks for information. Yeah, that makes somewhat more sense. Can you ever see the failure if you disable CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE? Because your findings still seem to indicate that there' some problem with page migration and Alpha (added MM list to CC). Honza -- Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx> SUSE Labs, CR
