Re: kernel 4.14.x crash around fsnotify_mark_connector

From: Pavlos Parissis
Date: Tue Apr 17 2018 - 10:15:19 EST


On 17/04/2018 04:02 ÎÎ, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 17-04-18 12:39:32, Pavlos Parissis wrote:
>> In one of our production servers where we run kernel version 4.14.32, I noticed
>> the following:
>
> OK, I was looking into this for some time and couldn't find a problem in
> 4.14.32 code. Can you try running a kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and
> CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC enabled to hopefully catch the problem earlier?
> Thanks!
>

I can certainly do that, but I can't reproduce that specific crash. So, it may
take days before we get a similar crash. Having said that, the soft lockup issue,
which I mentioned in another thread, happens once per day, so I hope running a
kernel with those debug settings will help you.

Cheers,
Pavlos

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