On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Christian Borntraeger
<borntrae...@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 09/12/2014 10:09 PM, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
>> On 09/12/2014 01:54 PM, Ming Lei wrote:
>>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:26 PM, Christian Borntraeger
>>> <borntrae...@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>> Folks,
>>>>
>>>> we have seen the following bug with 3.16 as a KVM guest. It suspect the 
>>>> blk-mq rework that happened between 3.15 and 3.16, but it can be something 
>>>> completely different.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Care to share how you reproduce the issue?
>>
>> Host with 16GB RAM 32GB swap. 15 guest all with 2 GB RAM (and varying amount 
>> of CPUs). All do heavy file I/O.
>> It did not happen with 3.15/3.15 in guest/host and does happen with 
>> 3.16/3.16. So our next step is to check
>> 3.15/3.16 and 3.16/3.15 to identify if its host memory mgmt or guest block 
>> layer.
>
> The crashed happen pretty randomly, but when they happen it seems that its 
> the same trace as below. This makes memory corruption by host vm less likely 
> and some thing wrong in blk-mq more likely I guess
>

Maybe you can try these patches because atomic op
can be reordered on S390:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141094730828533&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=141094730828534&w=2

Thanks
-- 
Ming Lei
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