Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 178634
Kernel panic when software RAID 1 is under load
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:24:30 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/417.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.8 Description of problem: I have an Athlon 64 Fedora Core 4 system that has been, save this issue, totally stable. Yesterday I installed two IDE drives on their device chain. These drives were recognized by both the BIOS and Linux. I formatted them for RAID, created a RAID 1 volume with mdadm, and created an ext3 partition on the resulting md0 device. All this worked without error. I then began to copy a large number of files to the RAID volume. Several minutes into this process, the kernel panicked with a synchronization error. I then rebooted several times with older kernels and various disk-related services disabled, ultimately discovering from my testing that the problem was in the Fedora-complied kernel itself. I built my own kernel from vanilla 2.6.15 source and the system is once again stable, even under heavy load to the RAID volume for long periods of time. This absolutely needs to be resolved before Fedora Core 5 ships. Reliable software RAID is a must. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.14-1.1656_FC4-x86_64 (and lower) How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a RAID 1 array of IDE disks with mdadm on a FC4 system with a stock Fedora kernel. 2. Put the new volume under load, for example by copying a large number of flies to it. 3. Wait for the kernel to panic. Actual Results: A kernel panic. Expected Results: No kernel panic :) Additional info: Not using the RAID features of my BIOS.
'kernel panicked with a synchronization error' This doesn't give us any information to work with unfortunatly. Unless you can reproduce this with the latest kernel, there's nothing here to work with. Note, that there's a 2.6.15 kernel in updates-testing for FC4 right now.
This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. Thank you.
Closing due to lack of response.