Bug 177357

Created attachment 122978 [details]
console log from january crash

Created attachment 122979 [details]
console log from december crash

There has been some discussion of this issue on lkml, please see:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113745093326567&w=2

I seem to also just have had a recent rash of these.  Has there been any
progress at all?  Is there anything in the updated kernel in U3 that is expected
to address this issue?

hi Bill,

Yes we are aware that this is a hot issue and we are actively persuing a fix.
No, U3 does not fix this issue. I'm marking this as a duplicate of bug #173843.

thanks,

-Jason

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 173843 ***

The bug this has been marked a duplicate of, is another and separate issue;
there has been no unmounting in the case I've been seeing (matching other
reports here), so shrink_dcache_parent() is not being called from kill_super()
on unmount.

Since this is with post-U4 2.6.9-42.0.3, it is after the "[fix] committed in
stream U4 build 35.1", above, and I am not seeing the 'busy-inodes on unmount'
message either, and the fix for the bug this is marked as a duplicate of is
present, yet I'm still seeing the crash.

I'm hitting this kswapd->prune_dcache bug quite frequently - around once a week,
on a few machines under constant load and high memory pressure.

Configuration is stock RHEL4 U4 + latest errata 2.6.9-42.0.3, dual-SMP, x86-64,
4GB memory

Crash signature is:

__down_read_trylock+18      prune_dcache+568
shrink_dcache_memory+20     shrink_slab+188
balance_pgdat+538           kswapd+252
autoremove_wake_function+0  autoremove_wake_function+0
child_rip+8                 kswapd+0
child_rip+0

RIP: _spin_lock_irqsave+40

Can this be reopened please, to preserve the reports from other users?

Let me know if getting a crash-dump and making it available to someone would help.

Bug 224134 is a duplicate of this:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=224134

*** Bug 224134 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

I too am seeing this on machines running the 42.0.2 kernel. Any progress on this
in terms of patches to test?

It would be a good data-point to establish if the newer kernels suffer the same
issue:

http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/RPMS.kernel/

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

*** Bug 177122 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This request was previously evaluated by Red Hat Product Management
for inclusion in the current Red Hat Enterprise Linux release, but
Red Hat was unable to resolve it in time.  This request will be
reviewed for a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.

Would it be possible to get a test patch posted here before release?

Can someone who can reproduce this problem see if it can still happens with
RHEL4-U6?  If it does crash, please get a dump, I hav never been able to 
reproduce this problem internally.

Larry Woodman