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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html