Package: systemd Version: 208-8 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
We are developing Intel DPDK applications on several Debian-powered servers. Those applications make use of 1GB huge pages, allocated through kernel parameters in /etc/defaults/grub, and an entry in /etc/fstab to mount them in /mnt/huge_1GB. After some upgrades, our applications stopped working on most servers due to hugepages being unavailable. They were still appearing in /proc/meminfo but were neither free, nor reserved. After hours of debugging (we had also updated Intel DPDK so we thought that was the culprit), we noticed a difference between the failing servers and the ones still working was that systemd was running as init on the failing ones and not on the working ones. We tried uninstalling systemd-sysv (installing sysvinit-core and systemd-shim), rebooting, and then it worked as before. After investigations, it looks like systemd, when run as init, mounts the hugepages in /dev/hugepages (IMHO, an unexpected place for a mount point), before them being remounted on /mnt/huge_1GB as per fstab. It looks like hugepages won't work when mounted twice. A likely culprit is /lib/systemd/system/dev-hugepages.mount. The workaround looks trivial (remove fstab entry and link /dev/hugepages to /mnt/huge_1GB), but I still have the feeling this should not have happened in the first place, hence this bug report. I would expect either (by order of preference): 1) systemd *not* messing with the existing hugepages setup; 2) being warned when installing systemd-sysv that systemd handles hugepages differently (especially when I have hugepages entries in my fstab). -- Package-specific info: -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing-updates APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages systemd depends on: ii acl 2.2.52-1.1 ii adduser 3.113+nmu3 ii initscripts 2.88dsf-53.4 ii libacl1 2.2.52-1.1 ii libaudit1 1:2.3.7-1 ii libblkid1 2.20.1-5.8 ii libc6 2.19-10 ii libcap2 1:2.24-4 ii libcap2-bin 1:2.24-4 ii libcryptsetup4 2:1.6.6-1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.6-2 ii libgcrypt11 1.5.4-3 ii libkmod2 18-1 ii liblzma5 5.1.1alpha+20120614-2 ii libpam0g 1.1.8-3.1 ii libselinux1 2.3-2 ii libsystemd-daemon0 208-8 ii libsystemd-journal0 208-8 ii libsystemd-login0 208-8 ii libudev1 208-8 ii libwrap0 7.6.q-25 ii sysv-rc 2.88dsf-53.4 ii udev 208-8 ii util-linux 2.20.1-5.8 Versions of packages systemd recommends: ii libpam-systemd 208-8 Versions of packages systemd suggests: pn systemd-ui <none> -- no debconf information
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==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/bluetooth.target.wants/bluetooth.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/dbus-org.bluez.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/acpid.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/acpid.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/avahi-daemon.socket.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/avahi-daemon.socket ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/atd.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/anacron.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/cron.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/avahi-daemon.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/rsyslog.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/ssh.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/binfmt-support.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/lm-sensors.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/pppd-dns.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/NetworkManager.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/multi-user.target.wants/ModemManager.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/lvm2-lvmetad.socket.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/lvm2-lvmetad.socket /etc/systemd/system/sysinit.target.wants/lvm2-lvmetad.socket ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/lm-sensors.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/lm-sensors.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/sysinit.target.wants/lvm2-lvmetad.socket <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/binfmt-support.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/binfmt-support.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/pppd-dns.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/pppd-dns.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/cgproxy.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/cgproxy.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/lvm2-activation.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/local-fs.target.wants/lvm2-activation.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/sockets.target.wants/lvm2-lvmetad.socket <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/sockets.target.wants/avahi-daemon.socket <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/sockets.target.wants/acpid.socket <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/accounts-daemon.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/graphical.target.wants/accounts-daemon.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/sshd.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/NetworkManager.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/NetworkManager.service /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/dbus-org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/bluetooth.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/bluetooth.target.wants/bluetooth.service /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.bluez.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/anacron.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/anacron.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/ssh.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ssh.service /etc/systemd/system/sshd.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/NetworkManager-wait-online.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/NetworkManager-wait-online.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/syslog.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/local-fs.target.wants/lvm2-activation-early.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/local-fs.target.wants/lvm2-activation.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/atd.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/atd.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/ModemManager.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ModemManager.service /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/rsyslog.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/rsyslog.service /etc/systemd/system/syslog.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/graphical.target.wants/accounts-daemon.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/cron.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/cron.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/acpid.socket.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/acpid.socket ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/avahi-daemon.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/avahi-daemon.service /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/avahi-daemon.socket /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/NetworkManager-dispatcher.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/ssh.socket.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/sockets.target.wants/ssh.socket ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/cgmanager.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/cgmanager.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service <== ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/lvm2-activation-early.service.dsh-also <== /etc/systemd/system/local-fs.target.wants/lvm2-activation-early.service ==> /var/lib/systemd/deb-systemd-helper-enabled/dbus-org.freedesktop.ModemManager1.service <==
# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> /dev/mapper/group-system / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # /boot was on /dev/sdb1 during installation UUID=fbe616bc-6539-400a-adeb-a8f61efd804d /boot ext4 defaults 0 2 # /boot/efi was on /dev/sda1 during installation UUID=8BAA-2600 /boot/efi vfat utf8 0 0 /dev/mapper/frodo-home /home ext4 defaults 0 2 /dev/mapper/frodo-swap none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 nodev /mnt/huge_1GB hugetlbfs pagesize=1GB 0 0