On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 11:46:04AM -0400, Sean Noonan wrote: > Using the attached program, we are able to reproduce this bug reliably. > $ make vmtest > $ ./vmtest /xfs/hugefile.dat $(( 16 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 )) # vmtest <path_to_file> <size_in_bytes> > /xfs/hugefile.dat: mapped 17179869184 bytes in 33822066943 ticks > 749660: avg 13339 max 234667 ticks > 371945: avg 26885 max 281616 ticks > --- > At this point, we see the following on the console: > [593492.694806] XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc (mode:0x250) > [593506.724367] XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc (mode:0x250) > [593524.837717] XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc (mode:0x250) > [593556.742386] XFS: possible memory allocation deadlock in kmem_alloc (mode:0x250) What is the configuration of the machine you are testing on? I can't reproduce this on a current 2.6.39-tot tree on a 2p/2GB RAM VM that has it's blockdev images on a single SATA drive.... Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs