On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 08:04:36AM +0200, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG wrote: > I just reported it to the scsi list as i didn't knew where the > problems is. But then some people told be it must be a XFS problem. > > Some more informations: > 1.) It's running with 2.6.32 and 2.6.38 > 2.) I can also write to another ext2 part on the same disk > array(aacraid driver) while xfs stucks - so i think it must be an > xfs problem That points a bit more towards XFS, although we've seen storage setups create issues depending on the exact workload. The prime culprit for used to be the md software RAID driver, though. > 3.) I've also tried running 3.1-rc5 but then i'm seeing this error: > > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000012c > IP: [] inode_dio_done+0x4/0x25 Oops, that's a bug that I actually introduced myself. Fix below: Index: linux-2.6/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c 2011-09-13 16:38:47.141089046 -0400 +++ linux-2.6/fs/xfs/xfs_aops.c 2011-09-13 16:39:09.991647077 -0400 @@ -1300,6 +1300,7 @@ xfs_end_io_direct_write( bool is_async) { struct xfs_ioend *ioend = iocb->private; + struct inode *inode = ioend->io_inode; /* * blockdev_direct_IO can return an error even after the I/O @@ -1331,7 +1332,7 @@ xfs_end_io_direct_write( } /* XXX: probably should move into the real I/O completion handler */ - inode_dio_done(ioend->io_inode); + inode_dio_done(inode); } STATIC ssize_t _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs