Re: LTP rwtest01 blocks on DAX mountpoint

From: Jan Kara
Date: Mon Jan 02 2017 - 05:11:31 EST


On Fri 30-12-16 17:33:53, Xiong Zhou wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 24, 2016 at 07:07:14PM +0800, Xiong Zhou wrote:
> > Hi lists,
> >
> > Since around 20161129 tag, LTP rwtest01 on dax mountpoint blocks
> > on linux-next tree, now on Linus tree.
> >
> > In "normal", rwtest01 subcase ends in a few minutes, now it keeps
> > running for hours on dax mountpoint, both ext4 and xfs. Ctrl + c
> > can interrupt it.
>
> Test programme is waiting for a memcpy call to return.
>
> From sysrq output, kernel code is not blocking on somewhere,
> it just wont return.

Thanks for report. I'll try to reproduce this. Looks like we are forever
retrying the fault or something like that.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
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