Re: Kernel crash during resync of raid5 on SMP

["Otto Meier" <gf435@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 8 Mar 2001 08:55:28 +1100 (EST), Neil Brown wrote:

>On Wednesday March 7, gf435@gmx.net wrote:
>> I run a Dual prozessor SMP system on 2.4.2-ac12 for a while
>> in degraded mode. Today I put in a new disk to switch to
>> full raid5 mode. Shortly after the command raidhotadd  the 
>> system crashed with the message lost interrupt on cpu1.
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>Was there an Oops? Can we see? decoded with ksymoops of course.

Unfortunatly I entered this command remotely. The console Display was
off at that time.

>Are you happy to retry? (i.e. raidsetfaulty; raidhotremove,
>raidhotadd).  If so, Could you try with 2.4.2?

I would not really like to do that, as of now everything runs fine again for a day.

>Where abouts in the sync-process did it die?  Start? end? middle?
>various?

After the first crash I needed to reboot. It crashed again shortly after
boot message that it starts to resync.

This happens several times until I used the kernel parameter MAXcpus=1.
Then it worked without a problem. After resyncing finished I could start
it again in SMP mode and everything worked fine again.

Sorry that can not shed any more light on it.

Otto


>NeilBrown
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>> This continued after reboot. I finaly managed to get it running again
>> by booting with kernel parameter maxcpus=1. In this one CPU mode
>> it finished resycing. 
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>> During this process I was never able to resync with two CPU's.
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>> After finishing rescyncing the system run now fine in SMP Dual mode again.
>> 
>> Perhaps there might be an issue with spinlocks during resyncing.
>> 
>> Bye Otto
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