On 25 July 2012 05:59, Bart Van Assche <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/24/12 19:50, Joseph Glanville wrote:
>> On 25 July 2012 03:53, Bart Van Assche <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 07/24/12 15:16, Joseph Glanville wrote:
>>>> I have been seeing this KP occur about every 3 days on our staging cluster.
>>>> I am not exactly sure what the root cause would be.. I assume this
>>>> would be a bug in SCST.
>>>> The kernel is a 3.2.14 with Ubuntu patch series applied and Bart's SRP
>>>> HA patches.
>>>
>>> It would help if you could tell us a bit more about your setup. It looks
>>> like SCST is running in dom0, and an IB workload in domU ? If so, which
>>> workload was running in domU ?
>>
>> There is no IB workload in the domU's.
>> In this particular case there are 2 dom0s connected together both
>> acting as SRP targets and initators.
>> Their are sometimes vms running on these dom0s but they aren't
>> currently in production so they aren't doing very much at the moment.
>>
>> The workload is typically one of adding and removing luns to
>> ini_groups, rescan the host to ensure they are removed cleanly etc.
>> As far as I can tell this would have to manifest as a race condition
>> as it can go for about 2 or so weeks without occuring.
>> Also worth noting is that I have a similar setup running on 2.6.32
>> with no issues also a pvops dom0 using SCST and ib_srp.
>>
>> Could it be your patch series introduced the bug? Those are the only
>> patches we have in our tree that effect SRP.
>
> You might be hitting a device removal bug in the SCSI core. It would be
> appreciated if you could retest with the srp-ha branch of this kernel
> tree: http://github.com/bvanassche/linux. That tree contains Linux
> kernel 3.5 + SCSI 3.6-rc1 + latest (yet to be posted) srp-ha patch series.
>
> Bart.

Will do.

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