Re: [OOPS] 2.6.9-rc4, dual Opteron, NUMA, 8GB

[Randy.Dunlap]

Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>
> > Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> >
> > > I'm reporting an oops.  Details follow.
> > >
> > > I have two of these machines.  I will happily be anybody's guinea pig
> > > to debug this.  (more details, access to machine, try patches, kernels...)
> > > Machines aren't in production.
> > >
> > > - Brad
> > >
> > >
> > > Kernel:  2.6.9-rc4 vanilla (.config below)
> > >
> > > Hardware:  IBM eServer 325, Dual Opteron 8GB ram (more info below)
> > >
> > > Pre-crash and crash:
> > >
> > > a1:~# mke2fs /dev/mapper/raid10-data
> > > mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
> > > Filesystem label=
> > > OS type: Linux
> > > Block size=4096 (log=2)
> > > Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
> > > 25608192 inodes, 51200000 blocks
> > > 2560000 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
> > > First data block=0
> > > 1563 block groups
> > > 32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
> > > 16384 inodes per group
> > > Superblock backups stored on blocks:
> > >        32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
> > >        4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872
> > >
> > > Writing inode tables: 1091/1563
> > > Message from syslogd@localhost at Wed Oct 13 11:46:01 2004 ...
> > > localhost kernel: Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
> > >
> > > Message from syslogd@localhost at Wed Oct 13 11:46:01 2004 ...
> > > localhost kernel: CR2: 0000000000001770
> >
> >
> > What's your block device configuration?  What block devices are sitting
> > on top of what other block devices?
>
>
> /dev/mapper/raid10-data is a LV taking 200GB of a 280GB VG ("raid10") with
> a single PV in it:  /dev/sdb1 -- ips driver, IBM ServeRAID 6M card,
> representing a RAID 10 atop 8 SCSI disks.
>
> I just made a new kernel without NUMA and made a filesystem on /dev/sdb1
> directly instead of using LVM and it worked fine, if not a little slowly.
>
> Now that I know it /can/ work, I'll try and narrow down whose fault it is:
> NUMA or LVM.

Very similar to
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109328505204081&w=2
and its follow-up:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109330259511819&w=2

but no solutions there.

--
~Randy
MOTD:  Always include version info.
(Again.  Sometimes I think ln -s /usr/src/linux/.config .signature)
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