On Oct 24, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Chuck Lever wrote:
Hi Matthew-
We are still trying to pursue intr/nointr testing on 2.6.25+
kernels. Looks like this week's kernel version is 2.6.27-rc7, but I
will need to confirm that.
Since 2.6.25, the problem is the "sql shutdown abort" command, which
is designed to trigger an immediate database shutdown, causes the
database instance to hang. It leaves database writer processes
stuck in "D" state after it sends a SIGKILL.
The process backtraces suggest that these processes are waiting for
the inode mutex before trying to invalidate the database file's
cache (nfs_invalidate_mapping). There is one process that owns the
mutex and is stuck waiting for a page lock in
invalidate_inode_pages2_range. This suggests that the signal is
causing some other code path to neglect to unlock that page.
It's a little out of my league. Are there ways we can gather more
information?
As a follow-up, we've found that we don't have this problem on UP NFS
clients. On single processor clients, SIGKILL works correctly and the
database shuts down without corrupting its data files. On SMP
clients, the signal results in hung database writers.
We've confirmed this difference on 2.6.25-rc2 and 2.6.27-rc7.
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Chuck Lever
chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com
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