On 07/14/2011 01:23 PM, Guus Sliepen wrote:
I'm having a problem with a system having an XFS filesystem on RAID locking up
fairly consistently when writing large amounts of data to it, with several
kernels, including 2.6.38.2 and 2.6.39.3, on both AMD and Intel multi-core
processors. The kernel always logs this several times:
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#2 stuck for 67s! [kswapd0:33]
...
I believe this patch should solve it. Please test and confirm before
I send it upstream.
Further comments on that thread in 2009 indicated the patch was very useful,
but it doesn't seem to have been applied upstream. Is there any reason this
patch should not be applied?
Hello Guus
This Bugzilla entry documents the XFS bug from 2009 in detail including
links:
http://oss.sgi.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=805
The problem was finally solved by a patch proposed by Linus. This is the
reason the original patch developed by Nick never made it into the kernel.
My tests back then showed that both patches fixed the problem.
It seems you have found a test case where just Nick's patch helps.
Regards, Peter.
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